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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX bug or feature?
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Date: 16 May 91 15:53:55 GMT
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julian@uhunix2.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Julian Cowley) writes:

>Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu> writes:
>>julian@uhunix2.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Julian Cowley) writes:
>>>Can anyone explain to me why TeX sets \pagegoal to the g present
   [...]

>>The \pagegoal is set to the \vsize when the first nondiscardable item is
>>added to the current page.  After that it doesn't change, except when an
  [...]

>That does make sense, but really what I was after is the height
>of all insertions present when the \output routine is called.

You can measure that by just asking for the heights of
the insertion boxes.

Victor.