> 2. How to make a cell have a fixed minimumheight. This may be a minimum > height (there is a problem anyway if the text is too long). Because > these cells are intended for longer text entries, I make them as > minipages right now. This would be very good in order to have possible > footnotes in the right place
Use a \strut or a \rule with width 0 and the height you need.
Ulrike Fischer