Hello Chris and others,<br><br>Perhaps an easier solution to the problem you stated is starting each box with a \strut. The following short example demonstrates the effect quite clearly:<br><br> \documentclass{amsart}<br>
\begin{document}<br> \fbox{a} \hspace{1em} \fbox{\strut a}<br> \end{document}<br><br>It is even possible to automatically include the \strut by defining your own box command like this:<br><br>\newcommand\mybox[1]{%<br>
\mbox{\strut #1}}<br><br>Then you can just use a \mybox{} wherever you need to put text in your form, and rest assured that your ascenders and descenders will be fine.<br><br>Good luck,<br>Yuri.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Adams</b> <<a href="mailto:will.adams@frycomm.com">will.adams@frycomm.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Aug 23, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Chris Bergstresser wrote:<br><br>> I could work around this -- taking into account the descenders when<br>> I place the item on the page myself -- except that although the<br>> documentation claims to work with the calc package it doesn't actually
<br>> seem to. That's in the part labelled C and D. It doesn't accept<br>> either the lengths or the calculations.<br>> Am I doing something wrong?<br><br>The problem is that boxes constructed so don't have a concept of
<br>``baseline'' --- not sure where this limitation is being introduced<br>though.<br><br>My suggestion for a work-around would by to use a \vphantom in every<br>text string containing the tallest and deepest characters (
e.g.,<br>\vphantom{Ay}) which will ensure that all one line strings have the<br>same physical size and the same relation of depth to baseline.<br><br>William<br><br>--<br>William Adams<br>senior graphic designer<br>Fry Communications
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