Re: Curious blank page

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:

> 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)

framedtext does not break across pages :( Can startbackground be 
persuaded to become sane?

Thanks,
Aditya

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