[texhax] [solved] Re: \vskip at beginning of file

[Rodolfo Medina]

Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz> writes:

> How about this? Or is it just as displeasing?
>
> \quad
>
> \vskip5in
>
> hallo
>
> \end
>
> Alan


Fine.  Thanks.

Rodolfo


> On 19/07/16 6:52 pm, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> In plain TeX: If I want to put a \vskip at the very beginning of my
>> document, I have to put a \hbox{} before, like in the following example:
>>
>>
>> % beginning of document
>>
>> \hbox{}
>>
>> \vskip5in
>>
>> hallo
>>
>> \end
>>
>> % end of document
>>
>>
>> .  Otherwise, if I simply do:
>>
>>
>> % beginning of document
>>
>> \vskip5in
>>
>> hallo
>>
>> \end
>>
>> % end of document
>>
>>
>> , the \vskip has no effect.  Is it possibile to avoid that ugly trick, and
>> how?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Rodolfo