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From: neumann@FUNCTION.MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU ("Walter D. Neumann")
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Subject: lastskip
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Date: 15 Mar 91 15:23:44 GMT
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\midinsert still has unresolved problems, which I will report on,
hopefully with solution, soon.  In trying to fix it I ran into a
stupid debugging problem in trying to see why a \removelastskip
was not removing the last skip.  If I define
\def\t{\immediate\write16{\the\lastskip}}
and then tex "\medbreak\t\medbreak" with \tracingall,
I see that the \t tells me that \lastskip is 0.0pt between the
two medbreaks, while the text \ifdim\lastskip<\medskipamount
inside the second \medbreak yields "false" (as it should).
 
What am I understanding wrong?
 
 
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