Date: Fri,  6 Nov 92 10:40:08 +0100
From: Benedikt_Heinen@firemark.fido.de (Benedikt Heinen)
Subject: Problem with indentations on page ends...
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Organization: Firemark.BBS - 1st Atari ST Node Aachen 

I've encountered a problem in plain TeX that I couldn't solve up to now...

Using the \item{}{} command, I should get the output in the following format:

 1. Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla
    Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla
    Bla Bla.

[...]
11. Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla
    Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla
    Bla Bla.

*BUT* The last \item on a page becomes formatted like this:

1. Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla 
Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bl
Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla.

What is wrong with it?

#--- 8< ---- SNIP HERE ----- Excerpt from JetMail.tex ----------------------
\font\normal = cmr10 scaled \magstep0
\font\HUGE   = cmr12 scaled \magstep4
\font\HUGEI  = cmti12 scaled \magstep4
\font\SectHd = cmr17 scaled \magstep0

% Prog-Names
\def\BTNC{ {\tt BTNC} }
\def\ACS{ {\tt ACS} }
\def\IOSmail{ {\tt IOSmail} }
\def\IOS{ {\tt IOS} }
\def\TBOX{ {\tt THE-BOX} }
\def\BINK{ {\tt Binkley} }
\def\JMAIL{ {\it JetMail} }

\raggedbottom
\parindent 0 pt
\normal

{ % intro
\topskip 2.5 in
\centerline{\HUGE Preliminary documentation for}
\centerline{\HUGE {\HUGEI JetMail\/} 0.30ss}
\vskip 1.0 in

After more than 10 month of waiting the first beta release of \JMAIL\ is
now available for testing. \JMAIL\ is really fast. One Example:

\JMAIL\ needs for tossing and distribution of 950K zipped mail
approximately 10 minutes on my system (1040ST/4MB/16MHZ/2 x 210MB Quantum
HD's with 1100KB/s transfer rate). I don't know the time for \ACS, but
\IOSmail\ needs about 50 minutes.
\smallskip

There are some restrictions if you use \JMAIL:

{ % items
\parindent .3 in
\item{1.} {\JMAIL\ only works with \BINK\ 3.00 and higher (because it uses
the base 36 format for outbound files like \IOS). We don't plan \TBOX\
support.}

\item{2.} {You had to install \BINK\ with domains, because \JMAIL\ is
written to work as a 5D system. All addresses in the configuration file must
be 5D. You can switch to 4D or 3D/2D for links which doesn't support 5D.}

\item{3.} {Messagetracking only works with a \BTNC\ nodelist. The compiler for
this nodelist is distributed with \JMAIL. The current version of \BINK\
(3.02a/Beta-8) supports this format and is available from 2:245/96 with {\tt
BT-BETA !GNADE} and other ST based systems.}
} % items
} % intro

#--- 8< ---- SNIP HERE ----- Excerpt from JetMail.tex ----------------------

After the last line a page break is performed...
The first two "\item"s are formatted correctly - but not the third one!
(Checked out with CS-TeX 4.0 on Atari ST's and the TeX system that is installed 
on the Sparc-systems in our local university, so this shouldn't be a problem of 
the ST-implementation - or - are both versions wrong regarding to this?

Also this problem only appears just before a forced page-break and not only in 
items... Also \leftskip and similar commands are left out there. What can I do 
to get around this problems?

bye,

    Benedikt