On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> wrote:
> I like it! Well, almost all of it: I'd vote for \large, rather than \LARGE,
> but otherwise it looks good to me.
Can we compromise on \Large ? :-)
> ,----
> | \item [{\parbox[][][c]{\wd0}{\LARGE$\square$}}] a
> `----
I tried the optional preamble for \item in a very naive fashion. LaTeX
threw an error. Maybe I did it wrong. Or maybe the preamble is
fragile. Regardless, there is probably a simple solution. Even for
enumerated lists, it makes sense to place the checkbox with the list
number rather than with the item text.
Regarding the extra square brackets after \parbox, I was just using
the documentation I found at
http://www.tug.org/tutorials/latex2e/$5cparbox.html :
\parbox[position][height][inner-pos]{width}{text}
A parbox is a box whose contents are created in paragraph mode. The
\parbox has two mandatory arguments:
width - specifies the width of the parbox, and
text - the text that goes inside the parbox.
LaTeX will position a parbox so its centre lines up with the centre of
the text line. The optional position argument allows you to line up
either the top or bottom line in the parbox (default is top).
If the height argument is not given, the box will have the natural
height of the text.
The inner-pos argument controls the placement of the text inside the
box. If it is not specified, position is used.
t --- text is placed at the top of the box.
c --- text is centred in the box.
b --- text is placed at the bottom of the box.
s --- stretch vertically. The text must contain vertically stretchable
space for this to work.
A \parbox command is used for a parbox containing a small piece of
text, with nothing fancy inside. In particular, you shouldn't use any
of the paragraph-making environments inside a \parbox argument. For
larger pieces of text, including ones containing a paragraph-making
environment, you should use a minipage environment See minipage.
