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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Rodolfo Medina wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">>If I type<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> \hrule<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> hallo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">>, `hallo' with the \hrule above it gets shifted down a little (maybe a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">>\baselinskip?). I wish to define a \myhrule such that `hallo' remains at its<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">>place and the \hrule is just placed up, without any shift. Possible...?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The top of the page is special. Vertical space is added so the baseline of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the first line is at a distance \topskip below the margin set by \voffset,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Also, the vertical space around an \hrule is special, in that no extra space
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">is added and so the rule is flush with the lines above and below it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Perhaps what you want can be achieved with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> \vglue-\topskip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> \hrule<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> \strut hallo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">If you need “hallo” to sit at the same height as starting lines on other
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">pages, something like<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> \vglue-\topskip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> \hrule<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> \leavevmode \vbox to \topskip{}hallo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ought to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Daniel H. Luecking, Graduate Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Dept. of Mathematical Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">University of Arkansas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Fayetteville, AR, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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