Re: How to: get TeX to warn me when it breaks a chunk of text overpages.

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> In message <87ofhy1yxa.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net>,
> on Sat, 9 Mar 2002 at 09:23:45, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 
>> I still don't get a warning if a recipe is longer than a single page,
>> though, which is a shame. It's not an insoluble problem, just an
>> annoyance. I wish that TeX would tell me when I had work to do on the
>> layout. ;)
> 
> Can you not have a \startofrecipe command that simply stores the
> current page number (\pageno) and an \endofrecipe command that
> compares the previous stored value with the current page number. If
> they are different then a new page must have occurred and you can have
> the macro write a warning message and the page number to the log file
> so that you know where to go and look?

Thank you very much. /That/ will work perfectly. Yay!

        Daniel

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