New subject: Vertical alignment of framed text

19 Apr 2007

      Hello Mojca,

Is there need for \strut at all? The definitions

\def\hotkey#1{\inframed[corner=00, offset=0pt]{\ #1\ }}

and 

\def\hotkey#1{\inframed[corner=00,offset=0pt]{\strut\ #1\ }}

work equally well and I can see no difference.

I (wrongly) supposed that \strut version can prevent the frame from growing in height, but when I set offset more then zero, the height is increased too.

In your original version, only the offset option was omitted, so that  frames was bigger by default. With offset=0pt they look just pretty.
(Until there are possibility to control width/height or xoffset/yoffset separately). 

Thanks a lot.

Best, 
Vyatcheslav
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On 4/19/07, Mojca Miklavec  wrote:
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Hello Hans,
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I've found the following sentence in core-rul.tex:
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%D The last conditional takes care of the special situation of
%D in||line \inframed[height=3cm]{framed} boxes. Such boxes have
%D to be \inframed{aligned} with the running text.
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But the behaviour seems either broken or perhaps I didn't understand
the concept. The text inside bigger \inframed command doesn't seem to
be aligned properly:
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The last conditional takes care of the special situation of in||line
\inframed[height=3cm]{framed} boxes. Such boxes have to be
\inframed{aligned} with the running text.
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Thanks a lot,
    Mojca
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PS to Yatskovsky: I didn't realize that \inframed was indeed only a
synonym for "location=low".
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The culprit most probably lies here:
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\installframedlocator \v!low
  {}
  {\doprelocframedbox\strutdp
   \setbox\framebox\hbox{\lower\scratchdimen\box\framebox}%
   \ht\framebox\strutht
   \dp\framebox\strutdp
   \box\framebox}
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The box is lowered for "strut depth" + line width + offset, without
taking the extra parameter "height=..." into account.
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For Yatskovsky: you can still use something like
    \def\hotkey#1{\inframed[corner=00,offset=5pt]{\strut\ #1\ }}
if you need to have bigger offset (offset=...) and if you want all
your hotkeys to be equally heigh (\strut, although I believe that
strut is already there by default).
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But the "forgotten case" could or should still be solved ...
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Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of framed text

Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

Mojca Miklavec

Aditya Mahajan

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