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\raisebox

\raisebox{distance}[extend-above][extend-below]{text}

The \raisebox command creates a LR box containing text; it is used to raise or lower text. The first mandatory argument specifies how high the text is to be raised (or lowered if it is a negative amount).

Sometimes it's useful to make LaTeX think something has a different size than it really does - or a different size than LaTeX would normally think it has. The \raisebox command lets you tell LaTeX how tall it is.

The first optional argument, extend-above, makes LaTeX think that the text extends above the current line by the amount specified. The second optional argument, extend-below, makes LaTeX think that the text extends below the current line by the amount specified.

\raisebox is fragile.


See Spaces and Boxes
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Revised: Sheldon Green, 8 Aug 1995.