[texhax] alignment of parbox and fbox

Uwe Lück uwe.lueck at web.de
Tue Sep 15 12:17:01 CEST 2009


At 01:28 15.09.09, bill lam wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Uwe Lück wrote:
> > to \mathstrut. It is used in tables/arrays (horizontal alignment) to
>
>Did you mean that using \strut or \vphantom is redundant in rows of tabular?

I did. I was not perfectly aware: LaTeX automatically puts a modified 
\strut into every row of tabular/array. Height and depth of the usual 
\strut are multiplied by \arraystretch which is 1 by default. You can 
somewhat disprove my claim by \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{0}.

Cheers,
     Uwe.



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