[texhax] Text vertical shifting

Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.medina at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 14:30:10 CEST 2009


Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> writes:

>>> Suppose that I put here:
>>> 
>>>  <some text>
>>> 
>>> , but I want that in the output it is shifted a few lines vertically down,
>>> i.e. in the output it should not appear where I put it in the source tex
>>> file but a few lines below.
>>> 
>>> Is it possible, and how?
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> only <some text> should be shifted down, but not the text following it.  In
>>> other words, <some text> should be output by TeX n lines forward respect to
>>> where it is in the source, but not the rest of the text.



"Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> writes:

>>
>> OK, try this :
>>
>> <pre-text>
>>
>> \vtop to 0 pt
>> \bgroup
>> \strut
>> \vskip n-1\baselineskip
>> <some text>
>> \vss
>> \egroup
>>
>> <post-text>


> Thanks, this seems to work!
> Rodolfo


...but with some undesired side effect: I'm attaching test.tex, to be processed
simply with: `tex test'.  If you uncomment the lines 5,6,7,8,9,10 the whole
text is shifted down.

How can that be avoided?

Thanks for any help
Rodolfo


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