Xref: utzoo comp.text:2140 comp.lang.postscript:765 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!mrd From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Mike DeCorte) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Need help rotating address label; big top & left margins Message-ID: Date: 23 Jul 88 22:50:06 GMT References: <627@carr.UUCP> <1654@eneevax.UUCP> Sender: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Distribution: na Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 16 In-reply-to: alex@eneevax.UUCP's message of 23 Jul 88 16:33:09 GMT In article <1654@eneevax.UUCP> alex@eneevax.UUCP (James Alexander) writes: Your problem is not with postscript, but rather with TeX. As the TeXbook explains, TeX discards any spacing commands before something is printed on a page. To get around it, you trick TeX like you have done or by an empty \line, or even { }, before your spacing commands. Maybe even \noindent will work (you have to force TeX out of vertical mode). \leavevmode will get TeX out of vertical mode. If you wan't to print something but don't want it to be seen, one way to do it would be "\ " (without the "'s of course) -- Michael DeCorte // (315)268-2292 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet mrd@clutx.bitnet