X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["773" "Fri" "5" "February" "93" "12:20:38" "+0000" "Peter Abbott" "p.abbott@ASTON.AC.UK" nil "21" "Re: Baselines and multicols" "^Date:" nil nil "2"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA19078; Fri, 5 Feb 93 13:26:10 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA27178; Fri, 5 Feb 93 13:26:07 +0100 Message-Id: <9302051226.AA27178@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7095; Fri, 05 Feb 93 13:27:07 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2960; Fri, 05 Feb 93 13:27:05 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2958; Fri, 05 Feb 93 13:27:03 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 05 Feb 93 11:47:55 +0000. Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 12:20:38 +0000 From: Peter Abbott Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Re: Baselines and multicols Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 941 >In the general case, LaTeX *does* allow aligned baselines. its up to >the style designer to use fixed space, not variable bits of rubber, >between items. since TeX plonks rectangular boxes on the page very >precisely, its an ideal tool for building aligned baselines. I dont >quite see what the LaTeX 3 *kernel* needs to add. An example 2 column >style file with a good implementation of aligned baselines is >another matter, and it would be lovely to have it. > >Sebastian > > Ok so I will rephrase the question. Would it be possible for an option to be provided in multicol (or whichever style file is relevant) such that baselines can be aligned when using 2 coumn mode and including images (or other boxes) which are NOT exact multiples of baselinskip size? Peter