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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, David Allouche wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:42, address@hidden 
> wrote:
> > I don't understand the difference between the two commands "new page" and
> > "page break" (the same for lines)
> > Is it documented somewhere ?
> 
> In theory, and as far as I know or guess:
> 
>   New page *forces* the creation of a new page at its location (actually, 
> after its containing paragraph).
> 
>   Page break *hints* the typesetter to cut the page after its enclosing 
> block.

"New page" forces the creation of a new page, while treating the previous
page like whether it was the last page of your document.

"Page break" forces a break at that point, but it tries to extend
the height of your text so that it has the usual height of a page
full with text.

<Joris>