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I have used LaTeX a little bit for math (one Ipython notebook assignment to be exact).

I am a draftsman, I have been searching for a LaTeX library to do asme y14.5 symbols in LaTeX. I haven't found one for asme y14.5 symbols yet, however most of the symbols seem to be available in one form or another.

here is a Wikipedia page that has a chart of the basic symbols Wikipedia GD&T.

however I am most interested in is how I might emulate a feature control frame which is a series of boxes that wrap around your symbols and text. These boxes can be stacked as well as be merged vertically on the first box.

So my specific questions are:
Q1 is there a way to create boxes around text and symbols using some kind of begin and end tags.

Q2 if there is not a way to do this library for LaTeX would such a thing be feasible by designing a font & programming.

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As far as I know there's no such font in latex. You can, however, install truetype fonts. First you'll need a font, you can find it anywhere on the internets, here is an example.

Then you'll need to use the font, Here's how.

As for the box, I'm not sure whether you'll need it with this font... There are boxes defined in the font (see 0123-0124). But if you decide on another font, or think that the boxes are not good enough, you can see here how to create a box around your text. or you could use this.

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