[texhax] raiseboxing \hrulefill in multicolumn{}

geolsoft at mail.ru geolsoft at mail.ru
Mon Aug 23 17:12:55 CEST 2004


On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:15:36AM -0400, Barbara Beeton wrote:
> in plain tex, you can use a rule with a negative depth
> to raise it.  for a rule of thickness 1pt, 2.5pt above
> the baseline:
> 
>     \vrule height 3.5pt depth-2.5pt width.1fil
> 
> this is a \vrule because in a table cell, you're in
> horizontal mode.  i'm not positive that .1fil will do
> what you want in a tabular situation, but it's worth
> a try.


This seems to work perfectly:


\def\crulefill{\leaders\vrule height 3.5pt depth-2.5pt\hfill}

\halign{\hfil#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil\cr
1 column& 2 column\cr
\crulefill 1\crulefill& 2\cr
}

\bye


Best regrads,
Oleg Katsitadze



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