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Revision as of 04:36, 28 February 2014
Description
The \textwidth command contains a value that represents the width of the current line on the page. The value is contextual in that if the current line is within a columnar environment, then \textwidth returns the value of the current column width.
Example
The following example scales a long line of text to prevent it from breaking over multiple lines.
