Text Formatting ⇒ Line Distance after '\parbox'

[maxmax]

Hi all,

i have an example like

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Note: Example text that is in a parbox
      because it is longer than one line
Other text that has a somehow to short distance to the line above

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Note: \parbox[t]{4cm}{Example text that is in a parbox because it is longer than one line.}\\
Other text that has a somehow \\to short distance to the line above
\end{document}

Do you know why the distance is too small?
I'd like to have a command like

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\usepackage{linegoal}
\newcommand{\lgbox}[1]{\parbox[t]{\linegoal}{#1}\\}
\newcommand{\note}[1]{Note: \lgbox{#1}}

because I often have such a note in my work. But obviously this looks odd.
Is the parbox the way i used it overall a bad idea? Or exists some command for this matter already?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Max,

welcome to the board!

You could insert a \strut, which is an invisible element with minimum text height and depth, for ensuring the proper line spacing:

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Note: \parbox[t]{4cm}{Example text that is in a parbox
  because it is longer than one line.\strut}\\
Other text that has a somehow \\to short distance to the line above

Stefan

[maxmax]

Thanks again Stefan!

I really hope that someday I can return some help to the community, too!