# Hypertext Help with LaTeX
\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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