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- From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Anchoring Boxes
- Date: 10 Jan 93 15:50:21
- Organization: /pearl/homes/eijkhout/.organization
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- Message-ID: <EIJKHOUT.93Jan10155021@cupid.cs.utk.edu>
- References: <1993Jan8.175722.13313@ERA.COM>
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- In-reply-to: feit@ERA.COM's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:57:22 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan8.175722.13313@ERA.COM> feit@ERA.COM (Mark Feit) writes:
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- K3 AB Don Wilson....................................(410) 936-1212
- 440 Q Street Hamsville, MD 21012
- NK3 P Steve Donneley...................Omitted at Member's Request
- 1296 Repeater Road Seekyou DE, 14131
-
- Any suggestions/pointers/flames/etc?
-
- Oh boy. I've once done this for someone, but I can't find the
- macro. And I dont' want to spend half an hour reconstructing
- it. Anyway: the trick is (or at least one trick is) to
- recursively analyse the \vtop that you make for the address,
- "\def\address#1{\box\addressbox\vtop{#1\par\apart}}
- "\def\apart{\unskip\unpenalty\setbox\linebox\lastbox{\apart}}"
- measure the length of the first line
- "\box0\hbox{\unhbox\linebox}\global\linelength\wd0"
- and then \wd\addressbox\linelength".
-
- Something along those lines. (Get more ideas from 5.9.6 of
- TeX by Topic, or Tugboat 11(1) 51--53.)
-
- --
- Victor Eijkhout ................................ `There are also a few bugs,
- Department of Computer Science .......... though not as many as I've come to
- University of Tennessee ............... expect in new [MS]Windows products.'
- Knoxville TN 37919 ................................ (from a software review)
-