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LATEX@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (RW Hendricks) writes:
>There is a lovely little macro on page 95 of Seroul and Levy's book - A
>Beginner's Book of TeX.  I would like to use it to draw a box around two lines
>of normal text which has the usual // at the end of the first line.
>Unfortunately, LaTeX burps -- gets lost and thinks there is a missing \item.

Well, there is also a lovely little macro at SHSU called
boxit.sty. It allows you to include lines of text separated
by \\.

>It seems that the style SHADOW at SHSU does the same thing.  I have also had
>zero luck  in using \fbox$some text//And some more text.

You can still achieve the same thing by shadow.sty. All you
have to do is to place the \shabox's argument in a minipage 
environment.

>Obviously, I still do not understand how to package things inside boxes which
>can be put into these macros.  I hope someone can help set me straight!

Normally, if you make the argument of the box macros to be
a minipage environment, you will get around what you want to do.
Also, consider getting fancybox.sty and/or boxedminipage.sty.