[texhax] question about \vfil
Matej Košík
kosik at fiit.stuba.sk
Sun Oct 9 22:38:37 CEST 2005
Hello,
Could somebody please explain me why this:
\vfil abc\vfil\bye
doesn't have the same effect as this:
\vbox to \vsize {
\vfil
abc
\vfil
}
\bye
The former one is simpler and thus nicer. But there \vfil-s seem to be
ignored. I do not understand why because as far as my humble knowledge,
TeX starts to process the input in vertical mode. So the initial \vfil
shouldn't be ignored.
I would really appreciate some explanation or some link to a relevant
information. I do not understand the horizontal/vertical mode stuff very
well.
Thanks in advance.
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Matej Košík
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