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From: chin@ankh.ankh.ftl.fl.us (Albert Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: alignment
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Date: 8 Aug 90 00:58:27 GMT
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How is it possible to do the following in plain TeX:

xxxxxxx   yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy   zzzzzz
          yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
          yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I have tried using \halign but can't get it to work. Once you construct a
\vbox that goes beyond one line, will TeX "remember" which line to place
the "zzz" on when it finishes constructing "yyy"?

thanks.

albert chin ... mthvax!mamia!albert