[comp.text.tex] Can I make Tex align according to topline of a box?

idathon@uts.uni-c.dk (Hans O. Nymand) (04/27/91)

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
  

jefft@athena.mit.edu (Jeff Tang) (04/28/91)

I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but you can put the big box
inside a  vbox of height  0.

\vbox to 0pt {   big box stuff}

Jeff Tang
jefft@athena.mit.edu