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40 17 Miscellaneous\pageparbreak\footfudgefiddle\morenoexpandsLaTeX has a reputation for putting things in the wrong margin after a pagebreak. The eledmac package does nothing to improve the situation — in fact itjust makes it more obvious if numbered text crosses a page (or column) boundaryand the numbers are meant to flip from side to side. Try and keep the numbers inthe same margin all the time. Another aspect of TeX’s page breaking mechanismis that when numbering lines by the page, the first few numbers after a page breakmay continue as though the lines were still on the previous page.If you can’t resist flipping the numbers or numbering by the page, then youmight find that judicious use of \pageparbreak may help if numbering goes awryacross a page (or column) break. It tries to force TeX into partitioning the currentparagraph into two invisibly joined paragraphs with a page break between them.Insert the command between the last word on one page and the first word onthe next page. If later you change something earlier in the document the naturalpage break may be in a different place, and you will have to adjust the locationof \pageparbreak accordingly.For paragraphed footnotes TEX has to estimate the amount of space required.If it underestimates this then the notes may get too long and run off the bottomof the text block. \footfudgefiddle can be increased from its default 64 (say to68) to increase the estimate. You have to use \renewcommand for this, like:\renewcommand{\footfudgefiddle}{68}Help, suggestions and corrections will be gratefully received.17.2 Use with other packagesBecause of eledmac’s complexity it may not play well with other packages. Inparticular eledmac is sensitive to commands in the arguments to the \edtext and\*footnote macros (this is discussed in more detail in section 22, and in particularthe discussion about \no@expands and \morenoexpands). You will have to seewhat works or doesn’t work in your particular case.It is possible that eledmac and the hyperref package may work together. Ihave not tried this combination but past experience with hyperref suggests thatcooperation is unlikely; hyperref changes many LaTeX internals and eledmac doesthings that are not normally seen in LaTeX.If you want to use the option bottom of the footmisc package, you must loadthis package before the eledmac package.You can define the macro \morenoexpands to modify macros that you callwithin \edtext. Because of the way eledmac numbers the lines the arguments to\edtext can be processed more than once and in some cases a macro should onlybe processed once. One example is the \colorbox macro from the color package,which you might use like this:... \edtext{\colorbox{mycolor}{lemma}}{\Afootnote{...\colorbox...}}If you actually try this 18 you will find LaTeX whinging ‘Missing { inserted’,18 Reported by Dirk-Jan Dekker in the CTT thread ‘Incompatibility of “color” package’ on2003/08/28.