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- From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: What's the best way to void out a box?
- Date: 4 Jan 93 13:24:30
- Organization: /pearl/homes/eijkhout/.organization
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- In-reply-to: jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu's message of Mon, 4 Jan 1993 07:29:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.072931.18276@vela.acs.oakland.edu> jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune) writes:
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- When your output routine is finished, \box255 shoul be void. In other
- words, you must do something with the information in that box; it should
- either be shipped out or put into some other place.
-
- If your output routine contains the fragment
- {\setbox0=\box255 }
- it will
- -- assign box255 to box0, thereby voiding it,
- -- then throw away box0 when you leave the group.
-
- Note that you'd better set \deadcycles=0, otherwise you can
- pull this trick only a limited number of times before
- TeX complains again.
-
- JAF
-
- --
- Victor
- ``I have seen this funny quote, if only I could find it back.''
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