Questions tagged [shipout]
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Counting shipouts
Is there a way to get the number of pages shipped out so far? To be clear, I want to count "physical" output; I'm not interested in logical page numbers we typically find in the footer or ...
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How to Add/Insert Some Text to Body at Every New Page, As If It Was Input Directly
Is there any way to add some text to body (not to header or footer) at every new page, as if it was input directly?
I want to do like following:
Input body text in normaly way;
This is line 1.
\par
...
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Store value of a macro when a page is finished
After my previous question was not answered, I have trimmed the MWE to what I think is the real problem. I have a macro \recent that stores information (which is needed for hyperref-links). This macro ...
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Control the referencing of labels in headlines (hyperref, komascript) [or: how and when to “store” a label properly]
I am in the finishing process of a rather long book (about 2000 pages) for students. Each chapter of the book has a section with questions and another one with the corresponding answers. Some ...
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How to Alternate Geometry Layouts With \atbegshi [closed]
... A documentation question ...
Question: Is \AtBeginShipoutNext from the atbegshi package intended to "exceptionally" apply to a single printed page? Or, would this not even work with the ...
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Can luatex export coordinates of “glyph boxes”?
Consider the following sample LaTeX file:
\documentclass{standalone}
\begin{document}
Test $x^2$
\end{document}
When processed by one of the TeX engines, one gets a pdf with glyphs that are ...
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How do I add one blank page after both these pages?
I have two inetial pages in my document. I need to leave blank pages after both pages explicitely. \shipout\null is not working properly. How should I add that?
MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper,times,...
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Why does \openout produce output in plain tex when it does not in latex?
This is a follow up question of this question. Why this plain code (from shreevatsar's answer)
\newwrite\outfile
\openout\outfile\jobname.out
\end
produce a page but this (equivalent) latex code ...
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Table of contents with headings on every page when last page of TOC has a single item
Similar questions have been asked—and answered—a number of times (e.g. here, here, and here), but all the answers seem to have the following bug: if the final page of the table of contents ...
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Why does \shipout start a new page?
The Tex Book (20th printing, 1991) describes the \shipout<box> primitive as follows (p. 279).
After the <box> is formed — possibly by constructing it explicitly and changing modes ...
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What settings carry over to a shipped-out page?
When a new page is added to the document by executing a \shipout command, what settings are carried over to the new page from where the \shipout was executed?
For instance, as the following example ...
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The color and page order of shipped-out boxes
Consider the following LaTeX manuscript, which sets the document color to red in the preamble, and then proceeds to create a text box, use it, and then ship it out.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Text doesn't show in boxes shipped-out from inside the TikZ source code
I'm trying to understand a certain aspect of the TikZ language by inspecting its source code. The code that I'm interested in is in the file <tex installation directory>/tex/generic/pgf/...
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How to change font color for only the current page?
As mentioned by the title, I need to change font color for only the current page. After searching the internet, the afterpage package seems to be a good choice, as well as \colorlet{saved}{.} from the ...
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How can I isolate the scope of an object from the localized font settings at shipout?
I need to prevent my TikZ overlay's font settings from inheriting the font settings at ship out. I know this is a grouping issue because the closing } for the localized font changes has not yet been ...
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Does \newpage reliably trigger shipout. as in \AtBeginShipout?
Although I am using TeXlive 2016 with LuaTeX, single-column double-sided pages in a custom document class, I believe this question applies to nearly everything:
I am aware that the page shipout ...
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How to fix this (un)expected result from atbegshi
Please how to fix this?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{atbegshi}
\begin{document}
\section{Foo 1}
\lipsum[1-2]
\section{Foo 2}
\lipsum[1-2]
\section{Foo 3}
\...
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problem of colors with \AtBeginShipoutBox command
When I compile this code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{picture}
\usepackage{atbegshi}
\AtBeginShipoutInit
\AtBeginShipout{%
\AtBeginShipoutUpperLeft{...
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How to create a tex file in which reflections of the top will be in the bottom of the same page?
I want to prepare a .tex document using TeXStudio satisfying the following:
Take an A4 size paper.
What ever is written in the top half of the page.
Same writing will be reflected on the bottom ...
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How to prevent shipout of selected pages AND get a full set of cross-references
I would like to retain only a subset of pages, i.e. those which have been marked with the tag command \keepthispage and have come up with the following preamble commands.
\RequirePackage{atbegshi}
\...
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atbegshi warnings printed as part of output
Consider the following example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,atbegshi}
\usepackage[2-]{pagesel}% Ignore first page
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-50]
\end{document}
The output includes a ...
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TikZ externalized figures render incorrectly when eso-pic is used
I am having some trouble using eso-pic in conjunction with externalised tikz figures. Content added to other document pages using \AddToShipoutPicture*{} is drawn on the TikZ figure. This does not ...
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What happens to fonts (and robust commands) in shipout?
The following example does not produce quite the output I expect:
\documentclass{article}
\let\origshipout\shipout
\def\shipout{\origshipout\vbox{
%\normalsize
\emph{hello}}\origshipout}
\begin{...
