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tikzposter block titles (and consequently blocks) vary quite a bit in positioning and height based on the size of the title text. I would like for blocks to be horizontally aligned without needing to ensure the text in each has similar height. For example, if I have two blocks, one with a descender and one without:

\documentclass[25pt, a0paper, portrait]{tikzposter}

\title{Poster title}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{columns}
    \column{0.3}
    \block{Block A}{}
    \column{0.3}
    \block{Block g}{}
\end{columns}

\end{document}

This results in this kind of slightly offset block, even though the only thing that's different between blocks is one letter in the block title. enter image description here

I have played around a bit with changing the block style to add text depth to the title, but it doesn't seem to be applied to the title node itself and has no effect.

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Text depth is exactly the problem that you have here and one solution would be to manually add an invisible zero sized box through \vphantom{}:

\documentclass[25pt, a0paper, portrait]{tikzposter}

\title{Poster title}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{columns}
    \column{0.3}
    \block{Block A\vphantom{g}}{}
    \column{0.3}
    \block{Block g}{}
\end{columns}

\end{document}

enter image description here

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  • Thanks! Ideally I would like to avoid having to spoof things, so that I can use this as a template for future posters.
    – alan ocallaghan
    May 30, 2022 at 20:02
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    @alanocallaghan Well you could modify the \block so it always adds the same depth and height, no matter what. Or better create your own \fulldepthblock by \newcommand{\fulldepthblock}[2]{\block{\vphantom{Ag}#1}{\vphantom{Ag}#2}}
    – TobiBS
    May 30, 2022 at 20:07

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