Re: fbox with a predefined width

[Herbert Voss]

Paul Smith wrote:

I would like to box the text

Exercise 1

in such a way that the box of the text

Exercise 23

has the same width of the one surrounding "Exercise 1". I tried \fbox,
but with no success.

with package calc

\fbox{\makebox[\widthof{Exercise 23}]{Exercise 1}}

\fbox{Exercise 23}


Herbert