[NTG-context] figure in the middle of the page

[Hans Hagen]

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

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