[texhax] memoir page head confusion

[Philip TAYLOR]

You probably need a \leavevmode ...

Peter Seibel wrote
[...]

> So it seems that if I put an hbox around the whole left part of the
> even heading like so:
> 
>   \makeevenhead{headings}{\hbox{\headlinefont\llap{\thepage\hskip 6pt}
> \leftmark}}{}{}
> 
> then everything works the way I hoped. Why, however, I have no idea. I
> would love to be edified if this is obvious to someone else.