On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:29:22AM +0100, Edsko de Vries wrote: > Is there any way to collapse adjoining \vspace commands? Sorry, don't know the LaTeX way, but TeX has the \lastskip primitive. E.g., plain.tex defines the following macro: \def\bigbreak{\par\ifdim\lastskip<\bigskipamount \removelastskip\penalty-200\bigskip\fi} HTH, Oleg