[XeTeX] horizontal alignment

[Philip TAYLOR]

John Was wrote:

> These work fine too of course - though I do sometimes find unexpected
> (and unwanted) tight interlinear space between \vboxes or \vtops, and
> between those and the next (unboxed) bit of text.  Sometimes it's not
> straightforward to figure out why this is happening and one can get
> involved in \struts and suchlike.

Absolutely.  All because TeX does not (sadly) have two reference
points for a box.  For this reason in real life situations I use
a \pseudobox, but that is too complex to go into here.

** Phil.