Re: How to place an item between table rows, centered on the page.

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Fri, 08 Mar 2002, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 06:00 PM 3/7/2002 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 
>>So, to resolve both of these I did a bit of playing around with TeX
>>primitives and came up with the following code:

[...]

>>       \setbox\StepDividerBox=\hbox to \hsize{%
>>         \hfil \blackrule[width=.3\hsize,height=.5pt,depth=.3pt] \hfil
>                                                                  ^ no
>                                                                  space
>                                                                  here

I am curious -- why should I avoid the space between the \blackrule and
the \hfil?  As far as I could tell it worked just fine with the space
and, as far as I know, TeX should be in the space skipping state when it
completes the execution of the \blackrule...

So, what have I missed? :)

[...]

> \def\StepDivider

[...]

> will probbaly also do,

Nope. That also had the 'squeeze the text to nothing' effect. You can
grab a copy of the PDF file from
<https://lists.rimspace.net/context-sample.pdf>

        Daniel

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