I'm trying to set up some business cards, and running into a tabbing environment behavior I don't understand. <div><br></div><div>I use a line made up of \hspace and \= to define the tab position, ending the line with \kill (Kopka & Daly, Guide to LaTeX, 4th ed., pp. 102), but when I generate output, the top line of the tabbed text is about a line and a half lower than the top line of an adjacent paragraph. I'm using textpos to position blocks of text.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The example below has a block on the left with a simple paragraph, and a block containing a tabbed environment on the right. I don't understand why the lines don't ... uh, line up.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Any help greatly appreciated!!</div><div>-pd<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}</div><div>\usepackage{fontspec}</div><div>\usepackage{graphicx}</div><div>\usepackage{xcolor}</div>
<div>\usepackage{setspace}</div><div>\usepackage{grffile}</div><div>\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}</div><div>\usepackage{settobox}</div><div>\usepackage{soul}</div><div>\setlength{\TPHorizModule}{1bp}</div><div>\setlength{\TPVertModule}{\TPHorizModule}</div>
<div>\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}</div><div>\setlength{\unitlength}{1bp}</div><div>\pagestyle{empty}</div><div>\newlength{\imgHeight}</div><div>\newlength{\imgWidth}</div><div>\usepackage[paperwidth=252.000000bp,paperheight=144.000000bp]{geometry}</div>
<div><br></div><div>\begin{document}</div><div><br></div><div>\raggedright</div><div>\fontsize{7.000000}{9.000000}\selectfont{}</div><div>%\color[cmyk]{1.000000,0.850000,0.000000,0.130000}</div><div>\begin{textblock}{96}(36,76)</div>
<div>This is several lines of text on the left side of the card. The lines</div><div>should align with the tabbed environment on the right.</div><div>\end{textblock}</div><div><br></div><div>\begin{textblock}{67.5}(144,76)</div>
<div>\begin{tabbing}</div><div>\hspace*{47bp} \= \kill</div><div>{248.358.4420}\> {office}\\</div><div>{123.456.7891}\> {direct}\\</div><div>{123.456.7892}\> {cell}\\</div><div>{248.358.1969}\> {fax}</div><div>
\end{tabbing}</div><div>\end{textblock}</div><div><br></div><div>\end{document}</div></div><div><br></div><div><br>-- <br><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">----<div>The Tech Curmudgeon</div>
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