On Wednesday 21 July 2004 12:31, Herbert Voss wrote: > Vaclav Smidl wrote: > > > My point was that if you specify the width of a column in a table, you > > can insert the same stuff as in parbox. > > the behaviour of footnotes is different and the vertival space > for the first line also. > > > I agree, that you can do much more in the minipage... > > what? >
I had the impression that \minipage is an improved (robust) \parbox... The footnotes are example of a difference (improvement) The latex help says: 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. So, I understand that it is better to use minipage but from my practical observation: it works even without it...
