[texhax] alignment of parbox and fbox

[Pierre MacKay]

On 09/08/2009 08:55 AM, bill lam wrote:
> Thanks to Lars, hh, Uwe for help.  I can get a perfect alignment now.
>
> I learn latex by reading the book 'A Guide to Latex' by Kopka and Daly
> (the 1993 edition),  There are no \vphantom or \strut mentioned in that
> book.  I guess that are new commands introduced later.
>
>    
\vphantom and \strut are basic parts of plain.tex, and go back to the 
1980s, probaby even to TeX78.  This is a warning not to neglect the 
index of the TeXbook.  It is very hard to get consistent spacing in 
either horizontal or vertical mode if you don't have the resource of 
these two macros.

Pierre MacKay