Re: Help requested for Automake.

[Gavin Smith]

On 4 March 2017 at 16:06, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> I thought of putting something inside @bye, but the problem is that
> penalties and glue are discarded when the page is empty, and anything
> else risks outputting a completely empty page at the end even when
> non-empty pages have been output already.
>
> If anyone sees a problem with the idea of starting out by always
> outputting an empty @vbox on the page, please say so.

The problem with using a @vbox is that this leads to @topskip glue
being added before it as well as @parskip glue before whatever follows
it (whatever comes first in the user's document).

Using a @mark didn't play well with the output routine in texinfo.tex,
but @special does work. An page with no boxes can be output if it has
a @special on it. I've committed a change that adds a @special to set
the paper size of the document (can be changed with @afourpaper etc.);
this should fix the problem.