Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: Jean-Come Charpentier <Jean-Come.Charpent...@wanadoo.fr>
 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006

> does anyone know how to set the height of rows in table?
> I want to make every row to have the same height, and vertical
> alignment be middle of the cell.

I think that the simplest is to use strut. Vertical alignment in the middle of the cell is not very clear. If you align the baseline with the middle of the cell, I'm not sure it looks centered. It's why the \Strut macro has an optional argument.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}

\newlength{\struthd}
\newcommand*\Strut[2][-0.3]{%
   \setlength{\struthd}{#2}%
   \rule[#1\struthd]{0pt}{\struthd}%

}

\begin{document}
$\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}$\Strut{2\baselineskip}\vrule

\vspace{5mm}
$\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}$\Strut[-0.375]{2\baselineskip}\vrule

\vspace{5mm}
$\displaystyle\frac{1}{2}$\Strut[-0.5]{2\baselineskip}\vrule

\vspace{5mm}
\begin{tabular}{|>{\Strut[-0.5]{60pt}}r|c|l|}
   \hline
   text & with & a strut \\\hline
   column one & column two & column three \\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Jean-Come Charpentier

\newlength{\myheight}
\setlength{\myheight}{3cm}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}\hline
      \parbox[c][\myheight][c]{0cm}{}  row 1 & row 2  & row 3\\\hline
      \parbox[c][\myheight][c]{0cm}{}  row 1  & row 2 & row 3 \\\hline
\end{tabular}