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- From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
- Subject: Help needed with spacing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan07.223650.12426@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 22:36:50 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
- Sender: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles C. Lin)
- Originator: clin@signal.eng.umd.edu
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- I am trying to print a line, such as a section heading in TeX, but
- I want to control the amount of space afterwards. For example,
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- \leftline{Summary of Stuff}
- \vspace{2cm}
- some text here.
-
- The effect that I am looking for is that the baseline of the left line, and
- the baseline of the first line of text should be 2 cm apart. Right now, it
- appears to be doing something like this. When it sees \vspace, TeX automatically
- ends the leftline as a paragraph, inserts \parskip worth of vertical space, then
- puts 2 more cm of space. I would like a macro like
-
- \sect#1#2
-
- and use it like \sect{Summary of Stuff}{2cm}
- where it will place approximate 2 cm of space between the
- section heading and the first paragraph. This will look like
-
- Example:
-
- Summary of Stuff __________
- |
- | baselines are 2cm + \baselineskip apart
- I am summing up ___|_______
-
- \sect{Summary of Stuff}{0cm} will make the lines \baselineskip apart.
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- Example:
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- Summary of Stuff -----------
- | baselines are \baselineskip apart
- I am summing up ______|____
-
-
- I would prefer e-mail responses, but will look out for posted responses.
- Send responses to clin@eng.umd.edu. Thanks in advance.
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- Charles Lin
- clin@eng.umd.edu
-