On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:58:10PM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > 2011/12/1 Heiko Oberdiek <heiko.oberd...@googlemail.com>: > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:49:30AM +0000, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > > >> Typesetting a restaurant menu, I have run into two problems : > >> one I can work around, one is completely defeating me. Here > >> is the relevant fragment of code -- > >> > >> \XeTeXpicfile Resources/Images/IMG_2206.JPG width \hsize \relax > >> \XeTeXpicfile Resources/Images/TAR-2.pdf width \hsize \relax > >> \vfil \eject > >> > >> Problem 1 (work-aroundable) : the \vfill \eject has no effect, > >> and the image appears above the \halign that follows. > > > > D.E. Knuth, "The TeXbook": "Chapter 15: How TeX Makes Lines into Pages": > > > > | Whenever TeX is moving an item from the top of the "recent > > | contributions" to the bottom of the "current page," it discards > > | a discardable item (glue, kern, or penalty) if the current > > | page does not contain any boxes. > > > > Solution, for example: put \XeTeXpicfile ... in an \hbox. > > > That's what I wrote about discardable items but it does not explain > why \XeTeXpicfile is discarded.
It is not discarded. Only the glue and penalty of "\vfil\eject". The picture is still there. Yours sincerely Heiko Oberdiek -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
