[texhax] plain tex vbox question

jw jwdevel at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 05:45:25 CET 2009


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> It's the \topskip, see:
>
> % ---- begin file 1 ----
> \topskip 100pt
> The quick brown fox...
> \bye
> % ---- end file 1 ----
>
> % ---- begin file 2 ----
> \topskip 100pt
> \vbox to \vsize{The quick brown fox...}
> \bye
> % ---- end file 2 ----
>
> \topskip is not active within \vboxes, only at the top of the page. And
> it's not zero by default.
>
> Regards, Hartmut
>

Perfect! Thanks, I had missed that tidbit.

-John


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