Rodolfo, 25 pt is indeed 25 pt whatever the place, but there are some notices: if this vertical space lies on a page break, it will be completely dismissed. Other thing you must take into account is that you may have more vertical space than that you declared: \parskip and \baselineskip, for example, usually are rubber lengths (or glues, if you prefer). Another: plain TeX allows you to set a magnification for your entire document. So, if you define a magnification 2, you will get 50 pt instead. Ah, "25 pt" is exactly the same as "25pt plus 0pt minus 0pt". Did I forget something?<br>
[]s<br>Ivan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 16:18, Rodolfo Medina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rodolfo.medina@gmail.com">rodolfo.medina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all.<br>
<br>
Suppose that in a certain place of my text I say something like, e.g.:<br>
<br>
\vskip 25 pt<br>
<br>
and I mean exactly 25 pt with no stretchability neither shrinkability. Will it<br>
be enough to say:<br>
<br>
\vskip 25 pt plus 0 pt minus 0 pt<br>
<br>
? Am I sure this way that plain TeX will shift what follows by exactly 25 pt,<br>
nothing more, nothing less? Or should I achieve that by some other commands?<br>
<br>
Thanks for any help<br>
Rodolfo<br>
<br>
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