[texhax] A problem of `strechability'

[Rodolfo Medina]

Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> writes:

> Philip Taylor wrote:
>
>> (La)TeX has no inherent stretchability; you, the user, need to provide
>> that stretchability by ensuring that \parskip, \baselineskip, or
>> whichever skips you would like to stretch, include "plus" components
>> in their values.
>
> You would also need to ensure that \raggedbottom was not true.


At the beginning of the document, just after `\documentclass', I put the
following three lines:

\flushbottom % in order to cancel \raggedbottom
\parskip=0pt plus10000pt
\baselineskip=12pt plus10000pt

but that had no effect at all.

Thanks,

Rodolfo