\savebox

\sbox{cmd}[text]
\savebox{cmd}[width][pos]{text}

These commands typeset text in a box just as for \mbox or \makebox. However, instead of printing the resulting box, they save it in the LaTeX command cmd, which must have been declared with \newsavebox.


See Spaces and Boxes
See \newsavebox, \usebox
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Revised by Sheldon Green, agxsg@giss.nasa.gov, 10 May 1995.