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headlines are not shown with tikz input (plain TeX) [duplicate]
I'm usign plain TeX with custom headlines. If I load Tikz packages with
\input tikz
then headlines are blank. The following are my headlines (some commands don't belong to plain TeX, but I think ...
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Strange behaviour with PGF/TikZ and Plain TeX output routine
I noticed a strange behavior when running PGF/tikZ with pdfTeX on my Debian box :
a simple session without tikz:
pdftex
**\relax
*Hello World
*\bye
do output the page number on the page footer.
On ...
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1answer
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Outputting a spread at a time
I think I remember Stephan Lehmke writing here somewhere in a comment about outputting a spread at a time instead of page.
That got me thinking; does that mean something like:
\output={\shipout\vbox ...
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2answers
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Background baseline grid with output routine
I am trying to get a baseline grid in the background of every page. I am using the plain format with XeTeX. This is what I have tried:
\baselineskip=13pt
\topskip=0pt \parskip=0pt
\newbox\gridbox
...
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1answer
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Can I write a macro for placing a vertical, breakable rule along arbitrary paragraphs without an output routine?
I answered a question last week about creating a continuous but breakable rule next to an arbitrary number of paragraphs in Plain TeX. My solution gathered the paragraphs to rule in a vbox; my output ...
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Why does the list of recent contributions contain exactly two boxes?
In the transcript of
\nonstopmode
\tenrm
\vsize=2cm
\output={\shipout\vbox{
\showlists
\unvbox255
}}
\hbox{blah}
\hbox{blah}
\hbox{blah}
\hbox{blah}
\hbox{blah}
\hbox{blah}
\hbox{blah}
...
