From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7163 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How to place an item between table rows, centered on the page. Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:33:49 +1100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <8766472vsi.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020308002516.03b8efc8@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397646 17000 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:27:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:27:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020308002516.03b8efc8@server-1> (Hans Hagen's message of "Fri, 08 Mar 2002 00:27:10 +0100") Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7163 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7163 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 Daniel -- Life is demented enough as it is. Why I haven't gone crazy, I don't know. But sometimes I wish I were. -- Jason Q.