[xmlroff] Text aligned to page bottom

Tony Graham Tony.Graham at MenteithConsulting.com
Tue Jan 29 14:46:39 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jan 26 2008 15:39:22 +0000, debacle at debian.org wrote:
> is there a way to align text to the bottom of a page? Such as
> \vfill in LaTeX? AFAIK, fo does not have such a thing, but a
> work-around would be to (mis-) use a footnote. However, if I'm
> not mistaken xmlroff does not yet support footnotes, right?
>
> +----------+
> |Some text.|
> |Mort text.|
> |          |
> |          |
> |Bottom.   |
> +----------+
>
> Any idea? Workaround? Hack? TIA!

You could try a two-row, single-column table with fixed height for the
rows and bottom alignment for the bottom row:

+----------+
|Some text.|
|Mort text.|
+..........+
|          |
|Bottom.   |
+----------+

Regards,


Tony.


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