[texhax] XeLaTeX: Extra vertical space in tabbing environment with \kill?

[Peter Davis]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Peter Davis <pfd at pfdstudio.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:31 PM, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com>wrote:
>
>> On Apr 8, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Peter Davis wrote:
>>
>> > I'm trying to set up some business cards, and running into a tabbing
>> environment behavior I don't understand.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>

Interestingly, the tabular environment comes a lot closer, as seen in the
example below.  The lines still don't line up, however, but they're closer.
 This reminds me, though, that I'm still frustrated that LaTeX doesn't let
you specify both column width and horizontal alignment for a table.  You can
specify l, r or c, or you can specify p{width}, but not both for a given
column.

\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\usepackage{settobox}
\usepackage{soul}
\setlength{\TPHorizModule}{1bp}
\setlength{\TPVertModule}{\TPHorizModule}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\unitlength}{1bp}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage[paperwidth=252.000000bp,paperheight=144.000000bp]{geometry}

\begin{document}

\raggedright
\fontsize{7.000000}{9.000000}\selectfont{}
%\color[cmyk]{1.000000,0.850000,0.000000,0.130000}
\begin{textblock}{96}(36,76)
This is several lines of text on the left side of the card.  The lines
should align with the tabbed environment on the right.
\end{textblock}

\begin{textblock}{67.5}(144,76)

%% \begin{tabbing}
%% \hspace*{47bp} \= \kill
%% {248.358.4420}\> {office}\\
%% {123.456.7891}\> {direct}\\
%% {123.456.7892}\> {cell}\\
%% {248.358.1969}\> {fax}
%% \end{tabbing}

\begin{tabular}[t]{p{47bp}l}
{248.358.4420} & {office}\\
{123.456.7891} & {direct}\\
{123.456.7892} & {cell}\\
{248.358.1969} & {fax}
\end{tabular}

\end{textblock}

\end{document}


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