Re: Strange vertical spacing now (2.9.28) with breakbefore = ##t

[Joe Neeman]

On 11/4/06, Arvid Grøtting <address@hidden> wrote:
> Joe Neeman <joeneeman <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > This is because the page breaking algorithm tries to ensure that
> adjacent
> > pages have similar vertical spacing (removing this code gives the
> results
> > you expected). I'll see what happens if I just remove this behaviour
> (the
> > line breaker does it, but the old page breaker didn't).
>
> This behaviour isn't necessarily bad in itself, it's just out of place
> in cases where you have truly forced page breaks.  "breakbefore = ##t"
> is such a case.
>
> What will happen if you keep the current behaviour of the
> line-breaker, but apply it to each section after splitting on forced
> page breaks instead of to the whole \book?  (My guess is we'll get the
> expected behaviour, quite possibly with a speedup as a bonus.)


That's a good idea, but it's a somewhat more difficult change and I'm not so
keen to do it this close to a release. Removing the uniformity penalty
altogether is safer and it isn't a regression because the old page breaker
didn't do it.