Re: Headers, footers, and tab stops for formatting

Subject: Re: Headers, footers, and tab stops for formatting
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Sat Mar 24 2001 - 17:10:03 CST

At 09:57 AM 3/24/01 -0800, WJCarpenter wrote:
>tomas> I do not see any reason to support columns in headers at all,
>tomas> even when we have time to implement it. I have never seen a
>
>I don't see an immediate or particular need for it, but if Martin or
>someone is willing to (later) do the work to support it, it should be
>there. Headers and footers should be as much like other document
>sections as we can make them. It's merely their display/positioning
>that should be constrained.

Why? It sounds like an interesting abstraction, but off the cuff I see no
practical use.

Doesn't it make sense to have at least *some* restrictions on
header/footers, such as:

  - can't insert a page break
  - can't insert a section break

Changing the number of columns also sounds non-obvious.

Paul

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