From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: "infinite" paper height
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:38:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44BCD638.2060601@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44BCD560.2020402@elvenkind.com>
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Ricard Roca wrote:
>
>> I think that's not possible because of TeX. TeX limits any dimension to 2^30
>> scaled points (~5.75 m).
>>
>
> I just realized you can cheat just a little:
>
> \hsize=575cm
> \advance \hsize \hsize
>
interesting indeed because normally tex checks for overflows when
calculating
> \message{\the\hsize} % reports 32720.66928pt ~ 11.5m
>
> A nice one for Pavel's new 'TeX surprises' in eurobachotex
> next year.
>
>
actually, one can put stuff in a vbox till tex's mem overflows, and even split off pieces, as long as one does not calculate using the dimensions of a box; tex's overflow check only happens when doing explicit calculations
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-18 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-18 11:33 Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-18 12:02 ` Ricard Roca
2006-07-18 12:34 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-07-18 12:38 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2006-07-18 21:08 ` Martin Schröder
2006-07-18 22:15 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-18 12:09 ` Patrick Gundlach
2006-07-18 22:29 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-18 12:12 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-18 12:39 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-07-18 13:22 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-18 12:16 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-07-18 12:40 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-18 13:35 ` Adam Lindsay
2006-07-18 13:56 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-18 21:17 ` OT: formulae in InDesign (was: "infinite" paper height) Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-07-18 21:48 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-18 22:32 ` "infinite" paper height Hans Hagen
2006-07-19 0:03 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-07-19 8:02 ` Hans Hagen
2006-07-19 23:49 ` Mojca Miklavec
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