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 On Jun 19, 2006, at 18:56, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Andrea,
I'm not a real expert, but what I've understood: \strut is an invisible character with no width but the maximum lineheight (cont-eni, p. 72). TeX discards glue such as \vfill or \hfill at the beginning of horizontal or vertical boxes, so you have to fool it into believing there is something before your \vfill. You could have an empty \vbox, but \strut is the fastest and easiest way of achieving this.
HTH
Thomas
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:55 +0200, andrea valle wrote:
Thanks Thomas, it works nice. I still have not understood: what does \strut mean?
Best -a-
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