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From: hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Ted Hopp)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: Disappearing Text with -me package
Message-ID: <149@nbs-amrf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 14:19:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 14:19:32 1986
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> Has anyone ever had the text (in this case a picture from pic)
> between the .(z and .)z of the -me package vanish never to appear
> on the output?
> If you have, and have a fix could you tell me. We are running
> the 4.3BSD -me macro package.
> 			Isaac Balbin
> 

If the vertical size of the floating keep (from '.(z' to '.)z') is
larger than the page length, the keep will never be emitted.  (I think,
in fact, that all future floating keeps will be queued behind the
keep that is stuck.)  This is probably what is happening to you.

The -me macros would apparently rather never output a floating keep
than split it across a page boundary.  Sort of nasty, I say.  You'd
think any left over stuff would come spewing out at the end of the
document as part of the end macro execution.

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Ted Hopp	{seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!hopp