[texhax] memoir page head confusion

[Lars Madsen]

Peter Seibel wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com> wrote:
>   
>> I've got these two definitions in a document I'm typesetting with the
>> memoir class:
>>
>>  \makeevenhead{headings}{\headlinefont\llap{\thepage\hskip 6pt} \leftmark}{}{}
>>  \makeoddhead{headings}{}{}{\headlinefont\rightmark\rlap{\hskip 6pt\thepage}}
>>
>> For some reason the even head ends up with the page number lapped out
>> correctly but then the rest of the heading gets moved down a bit so
>> it's not in line with the page head. If I fill in the center and right
>> parts of the even head they are in the same line as the \leftmark text
>> (i.e. a bit below the line of the page number.)
>>     
>
> So it seems that if I put an hbox around the whole left part of the
> even heading like so:
>
>   \makeevenhead{headings}{\hbox{\headlinefont\llap{\thepage\hskip 6pt}
> \leftmark}}{}{}
>
> then everything works the way I hoped. Why, however, I have no idea. I
> would love to be edified if this is obvious to someone else.
>
> -Peter
>
>
>
>   
>> The odd head works fine with the rightmark in line with the
>> right-lapped page number.
>>
>> Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>> --
>> Peter Seibel
>> http://www.codersatwork.com/
>> http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/
>>
>>     

why don't do what I always do when something puzzles me, look in the 
code, you might not understand it all, but you will often get an idea as 
to why things work the way they do.

each og the three header components (left, center, right) sits in it own 
little \parbox



/daleif
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