Re: multiple lines in footers

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 06:35 PM 1/1/2002 +0100, Ron van Ostayen wrote:

>Hans, why do I have to use \endgraf ?
>The TeX-book says that \par and \endgraf are basically the same but if I
>use
>\par it results in an error-message, \endgraf does not.

indeed, that is why \endgraf is needed; tex is very sensitive about \par's, 
one reason (probably) being that in th eold days it was a good thing to 
catch an unbalanced argument (which often contains an empty line or \par). 
Endgraf (which is a 'copy' of \par is not seen as a literate par 
(interesting since it's a straight copy).

One way around is to define all macros in a call chain with parameters as 
\long (\long\def\...). Unfortunately there is no switch to disable this 
'feature'. Another funny error catcher is \outer but in context i 
\let\outer\relax in an early stage so that is kind of gone.

>The left and righthand footer are now aligned on the bottom.  How can I
>align
>them on the top?

\vtop

if needed add a couple of \strut's (say \showstruts to see them in action)

Hans
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