From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28669 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: figure in the middle of the page Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:56:55 +0200 Message-ID: <1150736216.4992.12.camel@localhost> References: <7bc3d009d45c2c4eea91bfa4bd67da19@di.unito.it> <44967A8C.4000802@wxs.nl> <9228a3b6ca64445d816b6cd7fcb5a19b@di.unito.it> <8815a141fdf15d1165214e62624f6dec@di.unito.it> <29fb807afeafbab038019f1289bc2479@di.unito.it> <1150731956.4992.7.camel@localhost> <04f83a8e2bad3c7f1cee46338640b95b@di.unito.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150736257 9932 80.91.229.2 (19 Jun 2006 16:57:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:57:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 19 18:57:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FsN3x-00035L-Ji for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:57:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ECF41279F; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:57:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30816-02; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:57:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A69C12775; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:57:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE5E12775 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:56:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30727-05 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:56:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.112]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 44A351276F for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:56:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from homer.philologie.uni-bonn.de ([131.220.89.142] verified) by uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 33166450 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:56:56 +0200 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <04f83a8e2bad3c7f1cee46338640b95b@di.unito.it> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:28669 Archived-At: 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-