Re: Boxed items don't like sidefloats

[Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>]

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote:

> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>
>> Ah, excellent, it works perfectly, thanks a lot! Of course,
>> I'm still curious about the reason why a standard vbox
>> wouldn't do it ...

> sidefloats hook into the output routine and that does ot work in a box;

Makes sense.

> streams intercept the page stream (nasty but neat); expect more of that
> kind of stuff

You know, seeing how streams work made me think about an
extension I was considering for Alpeh: \pageboxnumber, being
255 by default but which could be changed at runtime,
choosing which box was used to build the MVL. I originally
thought about it because my mathematically aesthetical sense
complained that box 255 had to be used in e-TeX and
Omega/Aleph as well (the last box number in each system made
more sense), but now that I see your streams idea I think it
would have been a useful addition.

(Oh yes, I should really get back to Aleph. I see that
luatex builds on that too. I must say that I'm glad to see
that the project has been taken over when I disappeared
without a trace :P)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta


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