[texhax] Is the package textpos broken?

[Yuri Robbers]

Hello Chris and others,

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:

  \documentclass{amsart}
  \begin{document}
  \fbox{a} \hspace{1em} \fbox{\strut a}
  \end{document}

It is even possible to automatically include the \strut by defining your own
box command like this:

\newcommand\mybox[1]{%
    \mbox{\strut #1}}

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.

Good luck,
Yuri.



On 8/24/06, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 23, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Chris Bergstresser wrote:
>
> >    I could work around this -- taking into account the descenders when
> > I place the item on the page myself -- except that although the
> > documentation claims to work with the calc package it doesn't actually
> > seem to.  That's in the part labelled C and D.  It doesn't accept
> > either the lengths or the calculations.
> >    Am I doing something wrong?
>
> The problem is that boxes constructed so don't have a concept of
> ``baseline'' --- not sure where this limitation is being introduced
> though.
>
> My suggestion for a work-around would by to use a \vphantom in every
> text string containing the tallest and deepest characters (e.g.,
> \vphantom{Ay}) which will ensure that all one line strings have the
> same physical size and the same relation of depth to baseline.
>
> William
>
> --
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
>
>
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