[Tuglist] doubt for breaking vboxes

[Radhakrishnan CV]

On Thu, 2 May 2002 at 16:53, Baskaran wrote:

   I define an abstract command within a vbox for specified width.  
   There is no problem, if the abstract text less than page height.
   if the abstract text greater than the page height, it could not
   flow page by page. Could we break the vbox and flow the text page
   by page within a vbox as normal text flow

Yes, it is quite possible.

It works in the following way: 

1. Typeset the abstract material with the given width in a box
   (assume it is \box0). 

2. Measure the height of the box. 

3. If it is greater than \pagegoal, make a \vsplit exactly at
   \pagegoal to create \box1.

3a. Typeset \box1

3b. Typeset \box0

4. If less than \pagegoal typeset \box0.

Does this sound helpful? Try this and if you find problems, please
get back. I intentionally hold back the LaTeX code to do the job, so 
that you can try yourself to write the code first.

-- 
Radhakrishnan