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Article #4803Re: Joining boxes diagonally
From: David Lau
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1988 10:17
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 1988 10:17
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-sally!dlau 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 Lines: 23