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In article <1992Sep4.091432.10868@aber.ac.uk>, cmk@aber.ac.uk (C M King)
writes:
|> 
|> I have an odd problem with the use of miniboxedpage.

You bet

|> \documentstyle[a4wide]{report}
|> \input{boxedminipage.sty}

usually, if the file name ends `.sty', the implication is that you
should include it inside the optional argument of \documentstyle.  So
your first two lines should be just one, and shopuld read

   \documentstyle[a4wide,boxedminipage]{report}

|> \begin{document}
|> \begin{minipage}[c]{10in}
|> hello
|> \end{minipage}
|> \begin{boxedminipage}[b]{10in}
|> hello
|> \end{boxedminipage}
|> \end{document}
|> 
|> -------------------------------
|> 
|> the error I get when I try to run it through latex is as follows
|> 
|> latex header.tex
|> This is TeX, C Version 3.14
|> (header.tex
|> LaTeX Version 2.09 <7 Dec 1989>
|> (/usr/local/TeX/lib/tex/inputs/report.sty
|> Document Style `report' <13 Nov 89>.
|> (/usr/local/TeX/lib/tex/inputs/rep10.sty)
|> (/usr/local/TeX/lib/tex/inputs/titlepage.sty))
|> (/usr/local/TeX/lib/tex/local_inputs/a4wide.sty
|> (/usr/local/TeX/lib/tex/local_inputs/a4.sty)) (boxedminipage.sty)
(header.aux)
|> Overfull \hbox (313.11375pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 7--10
|> []$[]$ 
|> ! Use of \@ doesn't match its definition.
|> \boxedminipage ->\@if
|>                      nextchar [{\@iboxedminipage}{\@iboxedminipage[c]}
|>...

Read as I suggest, boxedminipage.sty will behave as if it was `part'
of LaTeX, where `@' behaves like a letter.  Read in your file, it was
being parsed as part of your text, where the control sequence \@ gets
activated.
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