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Hans van der Meer wrote:
A strut is something with height and depth which is not really what you want, because it takes some vertical space away. Ususally what I use is a TeX primitive "\null" that typesets an empty box; I don't think its typesetting will differ significantly from typesetting a strut: \page \null \vfill text \vfill \null \page
Hans van der Meer
indeed, but here i always use \startstandardmakeup \vfill text \vfill \stopstandardmakeup one never knows what side effects \null can have, after all, it is a line Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------