davidb@inmet.inmet.com (03/29/91)
/* Written 5:56 pm Mar 24, 1991 by phys59@jetson.uh.edu */ >Yeah, I have the same question (sort of). Why does this not work: >\vfill\hbox{...}\vfill\eject\end >but this does: >~hbox{}\vfill\hbox{...}\vfill\eject\end >The idea is to vertically center the stuff in the middle \hbox. Believe it or not, this is documented. Both vfill and hfill do not have any affect at the beginning of a page/line recpectively. Try vfill* and hfill*. Dave Barton barton@i2wash.com
geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning) (03/29/91)
In article <121700003@inmet> davidb@inmet.inmet.com writes: > Believe it or not, this is documented. Both vfill and hfill do not > have any affect at the beginning of a page/line recpectively. Try > vfill* and hfill*. Um, *where* is this documented, Dave? I did find a reference in the LaTeX manual (page 96) to "\hspace*{\fill}" -- but neither the TeX nor the LaTeX manual mentions hfill* or vfill*. I checked every cross-reference under "hfil" and "hfill" to be sure, as well as most under "vfil". And while \hspace*{\fill} does have an effect, it doesn't seem to solve my original problem, which was to get \epsffile figures centered on the page. (When I tried \hfill*, I got an asterisk in my figure, so I presume you misremembered and were thinking of \hspace*). Sometimes I really think I'd be better off going to a WYSIWYG system... -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com uunet!desint!geoff
eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (03/30/91)
davidb@inmet.inmet.com writes: > Both vfill and hfill do not >have any affect at the beginning of a page/line recpectively. Beg pardon? --- \hfill a\par\bye --- and where does the 'a' come out? Victor.