Stephan Lehmke writes:
> To be honest, the first thing I did was look at the file
> and wonder what the test was doing there, as no pdftex
> primitives were used.
> So I copied the code into a class file of mine.
> Klaus, is there a reason for this test? If not, could you take it
> out so I can use the style file with LaTeX instead of copying
> the code...
When I wrote that style, the postprocessor did not yet exist and we
used this form to build pages. The intention was to have the multiple
pages only in the pdf file for presentation and to keep everything on
ohne page for a normal latex run to prepare handouts.
I kept it that way, but maybe we need another way of specifying
whether \pause should be active or not.
> > But be warned, TeX tries to be smart and sometimes you get strange
> > results with texpause.sty.
>
> Dunno. If none of pdftex's special primitives are used, pdfTeX
> shouldn't be any dumber or smarter than TeX, no?
That's right. pdftex isn't smarter. But both can try to squeeze
another item on your page at the end at cost of reducing the glue
between the upper items. This may give the impression of flickering
pages, too. Of course you can avoid that reducing the shrinkability of
glue items, but that is not done automat(g)ically.
Doing the page split in the postprocessor avoids this problem because
the page layout is done only once by pdftex.
Klaus
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FG Systemprogrammierung, FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt
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