Dynamically increasing paper height, rather than breaking page

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Package geometry allows specification of paper height, e.g., \geometry{paperheight=782mm},

What about dynamically adjusting paper height — How to dynamically increase paper height, rather than breaking pages?

LaTeX has page breaking logic, tweak to increase paper height by length necessary to avoid break.

Welcome to TeX.SE. Are you familiar with the \enlargethispage command? — Mico, Jul 11 '23 at 09:46
What about \smash together with forcing a manual pagebreak? — Ingmar, Jul 11 '23 at 09:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '23 at 11:11

Observing 16383pt limit on page height

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{paperwidth=174mm,paperheight=16383pt,margin=8mm}

dynamically increase when attempting page break

\usepackage{everyshi}
\EveryShipout{%
    \pdfpageheight=\pagetotal
    \advance\pdfpageheight by 16mm %top and bottom margin
    \advance\pdfpageheight by \textheight
    \advance\pdfpageheight by -\pagegoal
}

(Variant of https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/49712/300519 for my purposes.)

Dynamically increasing paper height, rather than breaking page

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