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From: rhl@grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton (the Good))
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Subject: How is \structbox related to \baselineskip?
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In plain TeX, I want to back up (in a vadjust) so that some lines of
text appear in the margin in a different point size, and with the first
line lined up with the line that the vadjust appears in. 

I can do this, following example 14.28 in the TeX book, but I need to
know how far below the current baseline I am when my vadjust takes over.
Knuth does this with \dp\strutbox -- but I can't see how I should set the
size of the strutbox when I change fonts.

In otherwords, if I write a \npoint macro that tests a new \baselineskip,
how should I choose the accompanying \strut?

			Robert
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Robert Lupton                                           rhl@astro.princeton.edu