[texhax] stacking letters

Philip TAYLOR P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Sun May 1 13:06:04 CEST 2005



Hartmut Henkel wrote:

 > On Sun, 1 May 2005, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
 >
 >
 >>               \hbox to \wd 0 {\hfil \hbox {\fiverm #2} \hfil}
 >
 >
 > it seems that here the boxed box is not needed and there is a spurious
 > blank before the last \hfil that makes positioning uncentered.
 >
 >                  \hbox to \wd 0 {\hfil\fiverm #2\hfil}

Thanks, Hartmut : you're quite right about
the extra space; the boxed box /might/ be
necessary if #2 might itself start or finish
with fil-glue, I think.

** Phil.



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