[XeTeX] horizontal alignment

[John Was]

These work fine too of course - though I do sometimes find unexpected (and 
unwanted) tight interlinear space between \vboxes or \vtops, and between 
those and the next (unboxed) bit of text.  Sometimes it's not 
straightforward to figure out why this is happening and one can get involved 
in \struts and suchlike.  But I quite agree - keep it simple where possible, 
and don't get mired down in the intricacies of packages which might do a 
huge amount that one doesn't require, and then let one down in precisely the 
straightforward situation where one is trying to use them.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip TAYLOR" <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 20 November 2012 16:19
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment


>
>
> John Was wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I'm not a LaTeX user but I think the standard plain TeX commands mostly
>> work in that environment.  Could you not try giving:
>>
>> \begingroup
>> \interlinepenalty10000
>>
>> STUFF YOU WANT TO KEEP ON SAME PAGE
>>
>> \endgroup
>
> If you are going to advocate plain TeX solutions (as would I),
> why not the most simple solutions of all :
>
> \vtop
> \bgroup
> > STUFF YOU WANT TO KEEP ON SAME PAGE
> \egroup
>
> or
>
> \vbox
> \bgroup
> > STUFF YOU WANT TO KEEP ON SAME PAGE
> \egroup
>
> Philip Taylor
>
>
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