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- > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
