my upload daemon doth wink slyly and saith:

A submission was uploaded to /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20030407.001/.

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pbox Name and email: Simon Law Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/supported/pbox/ Summary description: A variable-width parbox License type: GNU Project

Announcement text:

The pbox command is a variable-width version of the parbox command, but the specified width is the maximum value. The box tries to be just as wide as its actual contents. As well, this package provides commands to determine a pbox's width.

If you are looking for a variable-width minipage, try the varwidth package.

i've installed the package as directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/pbox; thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team