[XeTeX] consternation and confusion - xelatex is generating a blank page in the middle of my document

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

I managed to get the example working by changing some of the font definitions. In my case, the pages are OK, except for a seemingly spurious empty last page. However, this page goes away after commenting the \backmatter command.

Thus, the mystery exists, although I am convinced that somehow the \backmatter is executed before the \longtable is put on the paper resulting in a spurious empty page.

Wilfred




--- On Thu, 12/11/09, Michiel Kamermans <pomax at nihongoresources.com> wrote:

> From: Michiel Kamermans <pomax at nihongoresources.com>
> Subject: [XeTeX] consternation and confusion - xelatex is generating a blank page in the middle of my document
> To: "XeTeX Mailing List" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Thursday, 12 November, 2009, 6:57 AM
> Hi,
> 
> While compiling my book I've apparently run into a magical
> sequence of characters for xetex, which leads to it
> generating an entirely blank page in the middle of my
> content, between a paragraph ending "[...] in the following
> table:" and the actual table.
> 
> If I stick dummy text in, or remove some text, so that the
> page before the blank one has more or less content, no blank
> page is generated and the table either immediately follows
> the paragraph, or is spread over the two (it's a longtable,
> so it just gets snipped in half neatly).
> 
> I've put my TeX file and xelatex (two pass) generated PDF
> file on http://pomax.nihongoresources.com/downloads//temp/ in
> case someone canfigure out what on earth is going on,
> because I can't figure it out.
> 
> While I can always rephrase the text on the preceding page
> just enough to effect TeX not generating that blank page,
> this problem is too curious to want to solve the quick and
> dirty way: what is going on here? O_O
> 
> - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
> nihongoresources.com
> 


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