At 15.01 +0100 2003-03-03, Ulrich Dirr wrote: >And curiously in the resulting output the next line of text is offset by >~0.4mm. When putting some \vspace command before the next line of text >to compensate for this -- which is not what I want because I then have >to do this very often and by hand -- I got the irritating behavior that >this text line "oscillates" above and below the baseline when I'm >changing the amount of vspace only a bit ... This needs not be related, but it sometimes leads to similar problems, and I haven't seen an explanation anywhere: why is \addvspace discontinuous? If SKIP < \lastskip < 0 then the net effect of \addvspace{SKIP} is to do nothing, but if SKIP < 0 <= \lastskip then the net effect of \addvspace{SKIP} is that SKIP is added to the current vertical list (thus moving everything up). Lars Hellström