[texhax] \vskip at beginning of file

[Herbert Voss]

Am 19.07.2016 um 08:52 schrieb Rodolfo Medina:

> In plain TeX: If I want to put a \vskip at the very beginning of my document, I
> have to put a \hbox{} before, like in the following example:

It is the sense of \vskip that it has no effect at
the beginning of a page.

\null
\vskip5in

should work

Herbert



>
>
> % beginning of document
>
> \hbox{}
>
> \vskip5in
>
> hallo
>
> \end
>
> % end of document
>
>
> .  Otherwise, if I simply do:
>
>
> % beginning of document
>
> \vskip5in
>
> hallo
>
> \end
>
> % end of document
>
>
> , the \vskip has no effect.  Is it possibile to avoid that ugly trick, and how?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Rodolfo
>
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