General ⇒ Vertical text justification

[trunto]

I want to vertically justify ie. center the text ("\huge Footitle") with the following code:

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\begin{titlepage}
\vfill
\begin{center}
\huge Footitle
\end{center}
\vfill
\end{titlepage}

But it doesn't work as it should. But if I add a line of text before the first \vfill it works:

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\begin{titlepage}
somerandometext
\vfill
\begin{center}
\huge Footitle
\end{center}
\vfill
\end{titlepage}

What is the proper way to vertically align text in LaTeX?

Thank you for your answers...

[localghost]

You can insert an invisible character.

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\begin{titlepage}
  \centering
  ~
  \vfill
  \huge Footitle
  \vfill
\end{titlepage}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Trunto,

welcome to the board!
Use

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\vspace*{\fill}

instead of \vfill. Vertical space by \vfill (and \vspace) would be removed at the beginning or the end of the page, but not in the case of \vspace*.

Stefan