# Hypertext Help with LaTeX
\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`. The saved `text` is accessed by a `\usebox` command.

The `\sbox` and `\savebox` commands are declarations with the usual rules for scope.

The `\sbox` command is robust; the `\savebox` command is fragile.

See Spaces and Boxes
See `\newsavebox`, `\usebox`
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