From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28675 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans van der Meer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: figure in the middle of the page Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:23:21 +0200 Message-ID: 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> <1150736216.4992.12.camel@localhost> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150748684 25251 80.91.229.2 (19 Jun 2006 20:24:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 19 22:24:38 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 1FsQHi-0005YR-2k for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:23:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC70912793; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:23:45 +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 16778-02; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:23:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E18127B6; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:23:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9385127B6 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:23:36 +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 11930-03-2 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:23:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.science.uva.nl (smtp.science.uva.nl [146.50.4.84]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id A4B2112793 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:23:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 118-12.uva.surfnetthuis.nl [145.98.118.12] by smtp.science.uva.nl with ESMTP (sendmail 8.11.6p2/config 11.36). id k5JKNUQ28516; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:23:30 +0200 X-Organisation: Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands X-URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/ In-Reply-To: <1150736216.4992.12.camel@localhost> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new 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:28675 Archived-At: A strut is something with height and depth which is not really what you want, because it takes some vertical space away. Ususally what I use is a TeX primitive "\null" that typesets an empty box; I don't think its typesetting will differ significantly from typesetting a strut: \page \null \vfill text \vfill \null \page Hans van der Meer On Jun 19, 2006, at 18:56, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > 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- > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context