[tex-live] Possibility to enhance registers

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 21:13:38 CEST 2012


2012/9/24 Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
> Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2012/9/24 Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
>>
>> > position on page, perhaps?  we're operating in the dark, here: you're
>> > letting out snippets of information, none of which is likely to be
>> > diagnostic, so far.
>>
>> It may be even more complex because page breaking is an asynchronous
>> operation.
>
> which would explain the apparently random nature of the problem.
>
> i wonder if "simply" redefining \mtc at BBR without that \unpenalty would
> solve the problem ... at least in this case.
>
Yes, it will solve the problem but the question is why \unpenalty was
used. LaTeX contains its own internal structures and switches so that
the macros could know whether \penalty is needed. \addpenalty is often
used instead of the \penalty primitive. I do not know the internals of
the minitoc package. I do not know when I used this package the last
time, maybe 15 years ago...

> robin



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