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Article #4909Re: Need help rotating address label; big top & left margins
From: Scott Simpson
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1988 20:34
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1988 20:34
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>In article <1654@eneevax.UUCP> alex@eneevax.UUCP (James Alexander) writes:
> Your problem is not with postscript, but rather with TeX. As the
> TeXbook explains, TeX discards any spacing commands before something is
> printed on a page. To get around it, you trick TeX like you have done
> or by an empty \line, or even { }, before your spacing commands. Maybe
> even \noindent will work (you have to force TeX out of vertical mode).
Try \vglue. \vglue won't throw away the space at the top of a page.
See The TeXbook.
Scott Simpson
TRW Space and Defense Sector
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trwarcadia!simpson@oberon.usc.edu (Internet)
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