mamon@acf4.UUCP (Gary Mamon) (11/19/86)
I wonder if anyone knows how to answer the following two questions about TeX. 1. How does one specify multiple line output in a given column of a table, i.e., the TeX equivalent of troff-tbl's "T{" and "T}"? I tried what I found in example 22.8 of the TeXbook (not really knowing what I was doing): \vtop{\hsize6in\strut#\hfil\strut} to no avail. 2. I want to create a mailing list with fixed vertical separations between the top of each entry (so as to be able to xerox the processed output onto label-paper). I tried the following preamble: \baselineskip=13pt plus 0pt minus 0pt \def \mifour {\vskip 20.04pt} \def \mifive {\vskip 7.04pt} \vsize 648.36pt \obeylines I used \mifour after a four-line entry, and \mifive after a five-line entry. But the output did not come out right. I compared pages 1 and 2 of my output and saw that the top of the entries did not match. What should I do? Gary A. Mamon ---> Astrophysics Group, New York University Physics Department (212) 598-3627 +++++++ 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA USENET: {allegra|ihnp4|seismo|princeton|topaz}!cmcl2!acf4!mamon ARPANET: mamon@nyu-acf4.arpa BITNET: ARPA%"MAMON@NYU-ACF4.ARPA" Obviously, a TeX novice!