Re: Weird godown, dorecurse, colors and page-fitting interaction

[Adam Lindsay <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> a long story ... to which ttp wizzard taco might want to add comment
> 
> ok, a fix first (missing \fi)
> 
> \def\godown[#1]%
>  {\relax
>   \ifhmode\endgraf\fi
>   \ifvmode\nointerlineskip\vskip#1\relax\fi}

okay. Those missing \fi's were troubling.

> what you observe is some interference; the fitting page macros use 
> framed and when you set width and height to fit, it will use the 
> reshaperr to determine the width; this mechanism fails as soon as nodes 
> show up that cannot be \un-whatevered or \last-whatevered; also, some 
> mechanisms have as side effect that they force the box to have a width 
> of \hsize

Okay, I thought it might be something like that.

> you may see some of the side effects when you play with:
  ...
> so, there is no real solution unless you use the foreground color or box 
> things yourself

Hmm. Forgroundcolor is not a solution for me, as I'm trying to mix 
colors (e.g., black + a spot).

However, if I go ahead and \hbox each line and \vbox the set, it looks 
like I have something workable!

Thanks,
adam
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