On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Harald Harders wrote:

I have uploaded makebox-v0_1.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new package makebox. Please copy the contents of the archive to CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/makebox. License is LPPL. The archive contains an xml file for the archive, the Makefile contains the target texlive: for preparation of TeXLive.

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From the README:

Define a makebox* command that does the same as a makebox command while the width is given by a sample text instead of an explicit length measure.

Thanks for your pakcage, I installed it in

macros/latex/contrib/makebox

For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf