Re: Curious blank page

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>   
>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, David Arnold wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Why is it that the rest of the page after Answers on page 4 of the
>>>> compiled pdf is blank?
>>>>         
>>> I have a similar problem. Attached is the (not so) minimal example
>>> that I could prepare. (This is part of my way on mathalignment). See
>>> the page break on page 2, while all the page is empty. Adding
>>> \kern\zeropoint prevents the page break. But I find such an page break
>>> very confusing.
>>>
>>>       
>> btw, you need to patch core-mat.tex :
>>
>> \doif => \doifsomething
>>
>>   \doifsomething{\formulaparameter\c!margin}% so we test first
>>     {\dosetleftskipadaption{\formulaparameter\c!margin}%
>>      \edef\leftdisplaymargin{\the\leftskipadaption}}% overloaded
>>
>> it seems that this was never encountered
>>     
>
> This doesn't seem to work. Changing line 303 of core-mat.tex \doif => 
> \doifsomething and regenerating formats, does not change the output of 
> the test file. I still get the incorrect page breaking.
>   
no, this patch is not related to the pagebreak but needed anyway (you're 
just lucky for not running into that bug) ; the pagebreak is just the 
result of background going crazy (well, not being able to determine if 
there is enough space left)

Hans

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