From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7198 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How to: get TeX to warn me when it breaks a chunk of text overpages. Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:18:32 +1100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <87adthxj0n.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: <87u1rr1g4w.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <02030809040807.29570@publish> <87ofhy1yxa.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397677 17229 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:27:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:27:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: (Bruce Horrocks's message of "Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:51:54 +0000") Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7198 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7198 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 -- Solum certum nihil esse certi. the only certainty is that nothing is certain -- Pliny the Elder, _Historia Naturalis_