Date: 21 Apr 1994 09:48:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Downes <MJD@MATH.AMS.ORG>
Subject: Around the Bend #18
To: info-tex@shsu.edu
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*** Exercise 18:
On page 254 of the TeXbook the following output routine is described:

	\output={\unvbox255 \penalty\outputpenalty}

and in the ensuing text Knuth writes "If the \vsize hasn't changed, and
if no insertions have been held over, the same page break will be
found." This claim is rather false. Why? How should the output routine
be rewritten to work as intended?
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Thanks to William Baxter (web@superscript.com) for contributing this
question.

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