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(latex.info)\savebox

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

   This command typeset `text' in a box just as for `\makebox'.
However, instead of printing the resulting box, it saves it in bin
`cmd', which must have been declared with `\newsavebox'.