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| Jun 17, 2011 at 19:00 | comment | added | Lev Bishop | Interesting aside: LaTeX seems to want an order 0.5 infinity (more infinite than cm, less infinite than fil) which it fakes with 0.0001fil. See definition of \raggedbottom. | |
| Jun 17, 2011 at 16:52 | comment | added | Taco Hoekwater | Even the tiniest non-zero amount of fill is infinitely more than even the maximum amount of fil, but TeX does not actually need arithmetic to decide that. It simply remembers an 'order' for glue stretching / shrinking levels, where normal units like pt, cm, in etc. are order 0, fil is order 1, fill is order 2, and filll is order 3. When decisions have to be made, higher orders always trump all lower order's values. | |
| Jun 17, 2011 at 16:39 | comment | added | Harald Hanche-Olsen | What – no mention of filll? filll is to fill what fill is to fil: a whole other level of infinity. Think of filll as a level of infinity to use for emergencies only, when you need something that is more stretchable than any amount of fill. I have found it handy on a couple of occasions. | |
| Jun 17, 2011 at 15:50 | history | answered | Martin Scharrer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |