Text Formatting ⇒ \vspace{\textheight}?

[ptrcao]

\vspace{\lineheight} apparently isn't valid so I tried:

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\vspace{\textheight}

But this created a massive line which occupied the entire remaineder of the page, within leftbar environment. I'm trying to understand it's behavior, can anyone shed light?

I basically want to achieve a line skip that is explicitly the height of one standard line of text in the document.

I know about \smallskip, \medskip and \bigskip but they're not explicitly defined in terms of the height of a standard line of text. Does anyone know if \bigskip happens to be exactly equivalent to the height of one standard line of text in the document?

[localghost]

[…] I basically want to achieve a line skip that is explicitly the height of one standard line of text in the document. […]

This is it.

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\vspace{\baselineskip}

[…] I know about \smallskip, \medskip and \bigskip but they're not explicitly defined in terms of the height of a standard line of text. Does anyone know if \bigskip happens to be exactly equivalent to the height of one standard line of text in the document?[…]

The mentioned commands all represent skips with a rubber length. Tthey are stretchable and compressible if necessary. So the \bigskip command is probably not what you are looking for.


Thorsten

[ptrcao]

[…] I basically want to achieve a line skip that is explicitly the height of one standard line of text in the document. […]

This is it.

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\vspace{\baselineskip}

[…] I know about \smallskip, \medskip and \bigskip but they're not explicitly defined in terms of the height of a standard line of text. Does anyone know if \bigskip happens to be exactly equivalent to the height of one standard line of text in the document?[…]

The mentioned commands all represent skips with a rubber length. Tthey are stretchable and compressible if necessary. So the \bigskip command is probably not what you are looking for.


Thorsten

That's right; I needed a fixed height on it. My thanks Thorsten!