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From: idathon@uts.uni-c.dk (Hans O. Nymand)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Can I make Tex align according to topline of a box?
Keywords: vbox,box,topline,align,alignment
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.134739.6329@uts.uni-c.dk>
Date: 27 Apr 91 13:47:39 GMT
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Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education
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Hi

my problem is the following.
       I make two boxes a big box and a small box inside a third box,
       and when this is printed the small box seems to 'fall' down on
       the baseline of the outer box, because Tex aligns the two
       baselines of the small and the big box.

       Like this


                BIG BOX
                BIG BOX
                BIG BOX 
      small box BIG BOX


What can be done to make tex align according to the top lines. It's
not good enough to use \parbox[t] becuase the BIG BOX is already made
into ONE box (say, the BIG BOX is containing ONE very big letter).



Thanx. Hans Olav