Questions tagged [whatsit]
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glossaries: spurious space before the glossarized item at the start of a line
Feeding mwe.tex containing
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage[style=long3colheader,toc]{glossaries}% using v4.52. If instead we use glossaries-extra v1.50, the ...
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\write or \index at the beginning of a table cell adds spurious vertical space
If a tabular column of type p (or a few others such as tabularx's X) starts with a write (for example because it starts with \index), this inserts some vertical space. MWE:
\documentclass{article}
%\...
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Why do user-defined whatsit nodes affect LuaTeX pagebreaking?
EDIT: A summary of the possible answers is given below.
In my current LuaTeX project I am using user-defined whatsit nodes to transfer information between the different stages of a LuaTeX run. On ...
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Is it possible to remove (or otherwise nullify) a whatsit node from a box?
I am aware that it is not generally possible to modify the contents of a box (as per https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/49903/17427), though I believe it is sometimes possible to "unbox" material and ...
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Whatsits: when are they used in practice?
This question came up in discussions surrounding the question How to replace a large block of text by an empty block of the same size?, which basically asks for a vmode analog of \phantom. My question ...
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\addtocontents at end of document not getting written to .toc file?
I'm trying to find a more elegant solution for ToC, LoT, and LoF formatting for my university's thesis/dissertation style. The short form of their requirements means I need one page style for the ...
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