Peter Clark wrote:

>       I'm playing around with boxed text, and in an effort to spice up the 
> appearence of the box, tried to place horizontal lines above and below the 
> box, just for added visual interest. Here's what I have:
> 
> \rule [1mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm}
> \fbox{\parbox{5cm}{
> Just some filler text to keep things interesting
> }}
> \rule [-1.2mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm}
> 
>       Now, what I would like is to center the two lines with respect to the box 
> itself, so that they don't hug the left side. Faking it with forced spaces is 
> ugly and seems inappropriate. Any suggestions?


something like this:

\begin{center}\rule [1mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm}\\
\fbox{\parbox{5cm}{%
Just some filler text to keep things interesting%
  }
}
\\\rule [-1.2mm]{4.5cm}{.2mm}\end{center}


Herbert

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