What the heck is a strut?

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From: Bill Poitras
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:08

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Does anyone know exactly a strut, vstrut and hstrut do?  Judging from
the code, layout.strut, which depends on a font, creates some sort of
glue whose alignment is proportional to the font's descent related to
the fonts total "height" (descent+ascent).  That would appear to give
you glue which is the maximum height of a single character of that
particular font with its vertical alignment set at the font's
baseline.  Is that right?  What did I just say?

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