viewing long pages, evince seems to choke on simple test file

[David Carlisle]

You don't really need to look in the dvi, (la)tex will warn you already in
the log about what is happening.

The main problem here is that a page break is not allowed after a section
heading so the page is massively overfull, if you change that to
1000 lines of

\section{test}zzz

Then you get more reasonable output. The visible page does start  around
section 22, but the geometry package warns

Package geometry Warning: `tmargin' and `bmargin' result in NEGATIVE
(-2890.8pt
).
    `height' should be shortened in length.




On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 at 22:26, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I was playing around with long pages in xdvik and thought I would return
> to things known to work. I made a simple test file,
> cat pagesize.tex | uniq -c
>       1
>       1 \newcommand{\mjms}[1]{ }
>       1 %\input{mikemailxxx.tex}
>       1
> %\documentclass[aps,secnumarabic,balancelastpage,amsmath,amssymb,nofootinbib]{revtex4-2}
>       1 \documentclass{article}
>       1 %\usepackage[a4paper, total={10in, 80in}]{geometry}
>       1 %\usepackage[paperheight=80in,height=78in]{geometry}
>       1 \usepackage[paperheight=80in,height=120in]{geometry}
>       1
>       1 \begin{document}
>       1
>       1 %\input{dum_clip.txt}
>    1001 \section{test}
>       1
>       1 \end{document}
>
>
> and ran
>
>
>  2181  pdflatex --output-format=pdf pagesize.tex
>  2183  pdflatex --output-format=dvi pagesize.tex
>  2193  history | grep pdflatex
>
> to generate pdf and dvi outputs for viewing in evince.
> Neither seemed right although they were more or less similar
> with the first page blank and the second starting
> around section 40 test and ending at 318 in dvi
> and 249 in the pdf file. The dvi output
> starts like as show below ( I modified dviasm to output
> a hex op code address ). It does look like page 1 is
> more or less blank but then page 2 is trying to
> start with "1 test." Is there something simple wrong
> with my latex source? I have to admit I did not look
> too closely as I had hoped to avoid problems
> but thought I may have hit an overlfow somewhere.
> If there is some simple thing to change the scale,
> the numbers in the preamble look scary for integer math,
> that may be all I need to know.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> ./mydviasm.txt pagesize.dvi |  more
> [preamble]
> id: 2
> numerator: 25400000
> denominator: 473628672
> magnification: 1000
> comment: ' TeX output 2019.09.07:1704'
>
> [postamble]
> maxv: 7473.810028pt
> maxh: 449.879822pt
> maxs: 4
> pages: 2
>
> [font definitions]
> fntdef: cmr10 at 10pt
> fntdef: cmbx12 (12pt)  at 14.399994pt
>
> [page 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
> 57 xxx: 'papersize=614.295pt,5781.59999pt'
> 79 down: 7473.810028pt
> 7e push:
> 7f   down: -8727.399994pt
> 84   down: 8697.399994pt
> 89   down: 30pt
> 8d   push:
> 8e     right: 232.377502pt
> a8     fnt: cmr10 at 10pt
> a9     set: '1'
> aa   pop:
> ab pop:
>
> [page 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
> da down: 7473.810028pt
> df push:
> e0   down: -8727.399994pt
> e5   down: 8697.399994pt
> ea   push:
> eb     down: -8662.399994pt
> f0     push:
> f1       push:
> f2         right: 19.875198pt
> 10c         fnt: cmbx12 (12pt) at 14.399994pt
> 10d         set: '1'
> 10e       pop:
> 10f       right: 44.175171pt
> 113       set: 'test'
> 117     pop:
>     y: 27.902756pt
> 11c     push:
> 11d       push:
> 11e         right: 19.875198pt
> 122         set: '2'
> 123       pop:
> 124       right: 44.175171pt
> 128       set: 'test'
> 12c     pop:
> 12d     y0:
> 12e     push:
> 12f       push:
> 130         right: 19.875198pt
> 134         set: '3'
> 135       pop:
> 136       right: 44.175171pt
> 13a       set: 'test'
> 13e     pop:
> 13f     y0:
> 140     push:
> 141       push:
> 142         right: 19.875198pt
> 146         set: '4'
> 147       pop:
> 148       right: 44.175171pt
> 14c       set: 'test'
> 150     pop:
> 151     y0:
> 152     push:
> 153       push:
> 154         right: 19.875198pt
> 158         set: '5'
> 159       pop:
> 15a       right: 44.175171pt
> 15e       set: 'test'
> 162     pop:
> 163     y0:
> 164     push:
> 165       push:
> 166         right: 19.875198pt
> 16a         set: '6'
> 16b       pop:
> 16c       right: 44.175171pt
> 170       set: 'test'
> 174     pop:
> 175     y0:
> 176     push:
> 177       push:
> 178         right: 19.875198pt
> 17c         set: '7'
> 17d       pop:
> 17e       right: 44.175171pt
> 182       set: 'test'
> 186     pop:
> 187     y0:
> 188     push:
> 189       push:
> 18a         right: 19.875198pt
> 18e         set: '8'
> 18f       pop:
> 190       right: 44.175171pt
> 194       set: 'test'
> 198     pop:
> 199     y0:
> --More--
>
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
>
> mike marchywka
> 306 charles cox
> canton GA 30115
> USA, Earth
> marchywka at hotmail.com
> 404-788-1216
> ORCID: 0000-0001-9237-455X
>
>
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