[tex-eplain] \vadjust gyrating, not migrating

[Daniel H. Luecking]

On Sunday, March 31, 2013, at 3:26 AM, Michael Talbot-Wilson [mtw at view.net.au] wrote:

>Dunno whether this is an eplain thing or a tex thing, but hope you can
>tell me what I'm doing wrong. 

It's a TeX thing. Anything in \vadjust is places directly below 
the line it occurs in. 

>Shouldn't \vadjust simply cause its body to migrate out of the line,
>without moving the line?  Without changing the place where the page
>break occurs?  Or doesn't it work that way?

If you want something to float to a new position, use 
    \topinsert ... \endinsert 
or 
    \pageinsert ... \endinsert
(these are plain TeX macros, documented in the TeXbook).

Regards,
Dan

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Daniel H. Luecking
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas