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In article <BtwFD6.Gx2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ritley@uiucmrl.bitnet writes:

> I have found that it is awkward to provide empty space for figures
> at the top of selected pages in a document.

> I have a feeling such a macro would be VERY difficult to write.
> However, it would be TREMENDOUSLY useful.

not really (difficult, that is).  the one I used (perhaps there's a
better way?  I'm all ears/eyes!) was something like:

text ending previous page
\vfill\eject  % force a page break
\null\vskip3truein    % skip 3in for your fig

a better way would probably be just to use a box containing that
size vertical skip.  the problem with the above is that if you
re-arrange your text, you may have to redo all of those hard page
breaks you've inserted....not fun.

of course, I haven't needed to do this for so long, I've never really
applied it since the days when I was still a TeXnical novice.

it's a start, at least....
   --jim

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