Re: Page-sequence support

Subject: Re: Page-sequence support
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:34:54 GMT
 > need to resolve this (and many other problems relating to pagination) is
 > an implementation of the page-sequence flow object class.
 > 
 > Page-sequence looks fearsomely generalised and powerful to me, and it
 > may be that supporting the full page-sequence model is way beyond the
 > abilities of current back-ends.  Has anyone looked into this?

in my view, TeX could not handle what would come out of the current
back end. It would need a major rethink.

I agree with Richard, but would also point out a need for supporting 
side by side objects. without that, one cannot do something as trivial
as equation numbering.

Sebastian


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