I new there was something weird about these issues. They were due to
formatting changes but the seemed like ones that should have been taken
care of by the smudge filter. Turns out the issue was twofold:
1. there are some formatting changes that arise from running tools one
after the other, so that was resolved by running them all twice, so
they all get the change to run on each other's output
2. I think I typoed renormalize in my test script (s instead of z) which
made me think the option either did nothing or was on by default.
Much confusion.