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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.

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.

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!

                                        Thanks
                                              Bob Hendricks