[pstricks] Save a length for later use

[Herbert Voss]

Ulrik Stervbo wrote:

>I would like to contrsuct something like this:
>+--------------------------------------------+ 14
>|     Title box (spanning 2 cols) with       | 13
>|     a poster title in a box                | 12
>|     a author in a box                      | 11
>+--------------------------------------------+ 10
>+---------------------++---------------------+ 9
>|    Textbox 1        ||    Textbox 3        | 8
>|    in col 1         ||    in col 2         | 7
>|                     |+---------------------+ 6
>+---------------------++---------------------+ 5
>+---------------------+|    Textbox 4        | 4
>|    Textbox 2        ||    in col 2         | 3
>|    in col 1         ||                     | 2
>|                     |+---------------------+ 1
>+---------------------+                        0
>
>The title box consist of a box for the title of the poster, and below that a box
>for the authors of the poster. The whole thing is surrounded by a psframe
>  
>

this is nothing else than two parboxes side by side, in which you
can put your boxes, just like a vertical list. With geometry you
can define your paper margins, then putting the title (maybe also as
a parbox} and then you define the two parboxes and put the
stuff in it. Where is the problem?

Herbert