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From: dlau@ut-sally.UUCP (David Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Joining boxes diagonally
Message-ID: <12103@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 10:17:12 GMT
References: <47700016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: dlau@ut-sally.UUCP (David Lau)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <47700016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> ceblair@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>   I have done a little bit with the boxes in TeX, but there's a lot I don't
>know.  My apologies if this is an easy question:
> 
>   Is there a simple way to write a macro \di#1#2 which takes boxes defined by
>#1 and #2 and gives a new box with lower right corner of #1 joined to upper 
>left corner of #2?  If possible, I would prefer to avoid using box registers.
>                                               Charles Blair    


This should work:

\def\di#1#2{%
   \vbox{
      \moveright\wd#2\box#1
      \nointerlineskip
      \box#2
   }%
}


David