Page Layout ⇒ Vertically justify minipages/parbox

[tornadof3]

Hello

I am writing a documentclass for exam papers and using a \question command:

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\newcommand{\question}[3]{%
  \section{\grade/\thesection}%
  #2\\
  \fbox{%
  \begin{minipage}{0.98\columnwidth}
    	\parbox[t][#1]{0.97\columnwidth}{#3}
  \end{minipage}
}
}

argument 1 is the height of the box, argument two is text that goes above the response box and argument three is anything that would go inside the response box.

Is there a way to get the minipage or parbox to vertically scale so that it is *at least* the height of the first argument, but will go more than that to space things out?

At present, when I have several questions, if the 'next' question is too large to fit on the page, it creates it on a new page, but the current page might have three or four questions with the last one on the current page maybe 10cm above the end of the page. I am using a twocolumn layout. Thanks.

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome, i haven't looked at the files yet.

Are you aware, that there are packages and classes out there for that purpose? exsheets is a very good and highly customizable package. exam is less customizable but still very usable.

fbox is very low lebel LaTeX command. You might be interested in tcolorbox or mdframed.