Subject: Re: PageSize Backend and some changes to PageSize front end.
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Sat Feb 03 2001 - 18:20:48 CST
At 9:10 AM +1100 2/3/01, Martin Sevior wrote:
>On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>
> > Not in the header, BUT for each page since we do NOT want to
> > preclude the (future?) ability to have different pages with different
> > sizes/orientations.
>
>We currently do not write out per page information.
I know...I complained about that already for my other
abi-related project.
>In fact once the
>option to choose a pagesize is in place (I've got the basics working
>already I'll finish the backend of the dialog by Monday for sure) the
>relationship between text and page number is rather arbitary since it
>depends on the page size.
True, but it should be related to the section in question. A
section defines a new block of text in a different layout (columns,
page size, etc.) - so even putting it into a section would be
acceptable.
>Doing anything else is a hell of a lot more work. For the time being just
>having the choice of landscape or portrait is a nice feature.
>
At a MINIMUM, please write out the page size information in
the document header as a starting place.
Leonard
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