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From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Box height in LaTeX ???
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Date: 14 Jul 90 12:56:22 GMT
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In-reply-to: pyt@hprpcd.HP.COM's message of 11 Jul 90 17:01:11 GMT

In article <15220001@hprpcd.HP.COM> pyt@hprpcd.HP.COM (Pierre-Yves Thoulon) writes:


   Does anybody know a way of doing the same thing with the height of
   the box rather than the width (in LaTeX or just plain TeX) ?

the only problem is remembering that a box has depth as well as
height; I append a solution, which I haven't tested :-}

remember that all of plain TeX is there in LaTeX as well

   \newsavebox{\boxone}
   \sbox{\boxone}{%
   %definition of box goes here
   }
   % define and assign a new height
   \newlength{\bheight}
   \bheight=\ht\boxone
   \advance\bheight by \dp\boxone

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