Unbalanced distribution

Asked Jan 24 '13 at 00:08

Active Jun 15 '17 at 20:52

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Inconsistent line spacing

Why is this text distribution unbalanced? As you can see, there is more space between the first line and the second, than between the second and the third.

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX, Scale=MatchLowercase}
\setmainfont{Minion Pro}
\begin{document}
  \hbox{}\vfill
  {
    \parindent=0pt
    \LARGE\scshape

    First Sentence\\

    Second Sentence\  
    Third Sentence\\
  }
  \vfill
\end{document}

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edited Jun 15 '17 at 20:52

Moriambar

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asked Jan 24 '13 at 00:08

NVaughan

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You don't need \\, but you do need an empty line before the closing brace. Instead of \hbox{}\vfill prefer \vspace*{\fill} – egreg Jan 24 '13 at 00:13
Thanks. That works. Could you expand your comment to a full answer, please? – NVaughan Jan 24 '13 at 00:17
@egreg Why is \vspace*{\fill} preferable to \hbox{}\vfill? – NVaughan Jan 24 '13 at 15:58

Unbalanced distribution

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