[texhax] using \vinphantom

[Michael Lommel]

Actually, the tabbing environement is not a good solution in this case
anyways it seems because it creates its own indent and a line break with the
rest of the poem...

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Michael Lommel <michael.lommel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings,
> Two distinct questions:
>
> (1)
>
> with
> \documentclass{book}
> \usepackage{verse}
>
> the command
>
> \vinphantom doesn't seem available.
>
> It works with
>
> \documentclass{memoir}
>
> Without using memoir, is there a way to get \vinphantom?
>
>
> (2)
>
> I would like to subtract the value of \vinphantom from a fixed value to
> create an offset inline. I started out with:
>
> \poemtitle{Amor vs Odio}
> \settowidth{\versewidth}{¡Ódiame! mmmmmm ¡No lo odies!}
> \begin{verse}[\versewidth]
> ¡Ódiame!\vinphantom{¡Ódiame!}\hspace{6em} ¡No lo odies!\\
> Porque vengo\vinphantom{Porque vengo}\hspace{6em}¡Ámame!\\
> del naciente\vinphantom{del naciente} \hspace{6em}¡Ámalo!\\
> ¡Ódialo!\vinphantom{¡Ódialo!}\hspace{6em}¡Amémonos!\\
>
> Then realized I need to subtract the \vinphantom value from the fixed em
> value so that the remainder of each line is lined up as if with a tab.
>
> I know there is a tabbing environment, but would like to take this
> opportunity to learn something more general about how to subtract variable
> values...
>
> ciao --
> Michael
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/attachments/20080413/d48512b9/attachment-0001.html