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class SpecialWhatsitNode

  • supers: WhatsitNode

There is only one DVI backend whatsit, and it just flushes its content to the output file.

Example:

assert.node_type("whatsit", "special", {
  id = "whatsit (8)",
  subtype = "special (3)",
  fields = {
    "prev (-1)",
    "next (0)",
    "id (1)",
    "subtype (2)",
    "attr (3)",
    "data (4)",
  },
})

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fields

SpecialWhatsitNode.attr

SpecialWhatsitNode.attr : Node {
    next: Node?,
    prev: Node?,
    id: integer,
    subtype: integer,
    head: Node?,
    attr: Node,
}

A list of attributes.

SpecialWhatsitNode.data

SpecialWhatsitNode.data : string

the special information