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From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Okay, I admit it, I don't understan
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.105856.2731@ITcorp.com>
Date: 29 Mar 91 10:58:56 GMT
References: <34921@<1991Mar20> <121700003@inmet>
Organization: Interrupt Technology Corporation, Manhattan Beach, CA
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In article <121700003@inmet> davidb@inmet.inmet.com writes:

> Believe it or not, this is documented.  Both vfill and hfill do not
> have any affect at the beginning of a page/line recpectively.  Try
> vfill* and hfill*.

Um, *where* is this documented, Dave?  I did find a reference in the
LaTeX manual (page 96) to "\hspace*{\fill}" -- but neither the TeX nor
the LaTeX manual mentions hfill* or vfill*.  I checked every
cross-reference under "hfil" and "hfill" to be sure, as well as most
under "vfil".  And while \hspace*{\fill} does have an effect, it
doesn't seem to solve my original problem, which was to get \epsffile
figures centered on the page.  (When I tried \hfill*, I got an
asterisk in my figure, so I presume you misremembered and were
thinking of \hspace*).

Sometimes I really think I'd be better off going to a WYSIWYG system...
-- 
	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   uunet!desint!geoff