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I am trying to use the following commands to set a length variable that measures the height of specific text:


\newlength{\mytextheight}
\newsavebox{\mytext}
\savebox{\mytext}{ENTER TEXT HERE}
\settoheight{\mytextheight}{\usebox{\mytext}}


These commands work perfectly fine when there is a ...

I am having a problem using minitoc for a part toc. It mostly works just fine, except for the fact that the table of contents is too long to fit on the page (it needs three pages) and so it puts as much as it can onto one page and then the rest is lost.

I tried to insert a page break within the ...

THANKS!!

Sorry for copying the same text twice. Glad to see it was clear what I intended.

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I need some help with an odd problem. I want to control the spacing between lines in multi-line equations and extensive research finally uncovered the command \setlength{\jot}{12pt}. This works perfectly, as shown below in the following test:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\setlength ...