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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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Output routine and \box255
The \box255 referred to in this question applies only to the container of the latest chunk of the MVL, as cut by the page builder. Now the question: I read somewhere that
\setbox0=\vbox to ...
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What is \box255?
I'm just reading the everyshi manual, and it says:
This package provides the hooks \EveryShipout and \AtNextShipout
whose arguments are executed after the output routine has constructed
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Can I detect whether a footnote has been split?
Title sez it all: Can I detect, hopefully by inspecting \box\footins, whether a footnote has been split at page-breaking?
I found the package fnbreak but it uses labels, which is much too delayed for ...
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Can I get at stuff in “current page” or “recent contributions”?
When I compile the following,
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{atbegshi}
\AtBeginShipout{\showlists}
\showboxdepth\maxdimen
\showboxbreadth\maxdimen
\usepackage{lipsum}
...
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Unbalanced output routine
The TeX primitive \output behaves almost like a toks register, except in the fact that it is always surrounded by braces. For instance, after \output={\plainoutput}, the result of \showthe\output is ...
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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}
...
