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From: grk@sfsup.UUCP (G.R.Kuntz)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: help with LaTeX over-full hbox
Message-ID: <2872@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 15:40:33 GMT
Organization: AT&T-IS, Summit N.J. USA
Lines: 62

I am trying to make a banner macro in LaTeX to satisfy
company-mandated memo formats.  I need something like the following:

+------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                      |
| subject: blah blah blah           date: today's date |
|          blooh blooh blooh                           |
|          blee blee blee           from: J. R. Person |
|                                         netsite!jrp  |
|                                                      |
|   texttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttextext    |
|   texttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttextext    |
|   texttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttextext    |
|   texttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttexttextext    |
|                       ...                            |
|                                                      |
+------------------------------------------------------+
    |<--------------- line length --------------->|

The banner lines are longer than the current linelength.

The problem:  I can't get rid of the ``over-full hbox'' message from
LaTex.

Below is my macro (backslashes changed to /'s so as not to confuse
any mailers along the way):

====================================================================
/setlength{/textwidth}{6in}
/setlength{/oddsidemargin}{0pt}

/newcommand{/banner}[3]{
	/begin{flushleft}
		/makebox[0.5in][l]{/footnotesize subject:}/nolinebreak
		/parbox[t]{3.5in}{/raggedright/bf #1}/nolinebreak
		/hspace{0.5in}/nolinebreak
		/begin{minipage}[t]{2in}
			/setlength{/parindent}{0pt}
			/mbox{/footnotesize date:/newline/rule{0pt}{0.35in}}
			/begin{minipage}[t]{1.65in}
				/raggedright/bf #2//
			/end{minipage}/par
			/mbox{/footnotesize from:/newline/rule{0pt}{0.35in}}
			/begin{minipage}[t]{1.65in}
				/raggedright/bf #3//
			/end{minipage}
		/end{minipage}
		/newline
	/end{flushleft}
	/vspace{0.3in}
}
====================================================================

Any LaTeXperts out there know how to fix this?

			Thanks,
			Ralph
			(grk@attunix.att.com)


-- 
	G. Ralph Kuntz N2HBN	grk@attunix.att.com