[texhax] alignment of parbox and fbox

[Uwe Lück]

Put \vphantom{p} into the first line of the first and third \parbox -- Uwe.

At 15:39 08.09.09, bill lam wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I got some troubles in aligning bill-to and delivery-to box in a
>invoice heading. I attach a sample source and the pdf output. My
>problems are
>
>1. I guess the letter 'p' in "Ship" has a descender that make the
>    frame lower than that of the left because "To" got no descenders.
>
>2. When the content is empty such as the last fbox, its height is
>    smaller than that of the first two box.  I also tried specified a
>    height for fbox but no avail.
>
>I want to known how to make all these 3 fbox to be exact the same
>height and aligns to each other.  Thanks in advance.
>
>
>% papersize, size of letters
>\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>\usepackage[english]{babel}
>\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>\usepackage{geometry}
>\geometry{left=1cm,top=1.5cm}
>% do not set pagenumbers
>\usepackage{nopageno}
>
>\begin{document}
>\begin{minipage}[t]{\textwidth}
>   \parbox[t]{.31\textwidth}{%
>    \bf To:\\
>    \fbox{\parbox{.3\textwidth}{%
>    Mr. No Name \\
>    Door No. \\
>    Street \\
>    City}}}
>   \parbox[t]{.31\textwidth}{%
>    \bf Ship To:\\
>    \fbox{\parbox{.3\textwidth}{%
>    Mr. No Name \\
>    Door No. \\
>    Street \\
>    City}}}
>   \parbox[t]{.31\textwidth}{%
>    \bf ~ \\
>    \fbox{\parbox{.3\textwidth}{%
>    ~ \\
>    ~ \\
>    ~ \\
>    ~ }}}
>\end{minipage}
>
>\end{document}
>
>
>--
>regards,
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