On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:00:18AM +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Sam TH wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:44:08AM -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> > > At 6:44 PM -0600 2/3/01, Sam TH wrote:
> > > >I agree that writing out page size info on a per-section basis is a
> > > >good idea.  But how exactly would you propose to implement per-page
> > > >info?
> > >
> > >   It really is a per-section, basis.   If the user were going
> > > to change the orientation for a "page", they would most likely insert
> > > a manual page break,which if it doesn't already, should then insert a
> > > new section into the format and that section would get the new page
> > > layout info.
> >
> > Actually, page breaks do not create new sections.  There is a concept
> > in the Break dialog called a Section break, but it's currently
> > unimplemented.  A future POW, perhaps?
> >
>
> I implemented this but it is in debug until someone fixes the interesting
> behaviour that ocuurs when pasting a section with 3 columns into a
> sections with 2 columns :-) BTW what should happen?

What I think should happen is that the text just gets reflowed (is
that a word)?   If there are <cbr/>s in the section, then they should
be respected.  I don't see why this is a complicated case.  What am I
missing?

Say you have columns like this:

 .........................................
 .          .               .             .
 . text     .   blah        .   foo       .
 . goes     .   blah        .   bar       .
 . here     .   blah        .   baz       .
 . quux     .   <cbr/>      .             .
 .          .               .             .
 .          .               .             .
 .          .               .             .
 .          .               .             .
 .          .               .             .
 .          .               .             .
 .          .               .             .
 .          .               .             .
 .

Now, pretend that we can only have 5 lines on one page.  Then, if we
paste it to two columns, it just looks like this:


 ....................................
 .                 .                .
 .    text         .   blah         .
 .    goes         .   blah         .
 .    here         .   <cbr/>       .
 .    quux         .                .
 .    blah         .                .
 .                 .                .
 .                 .                .
 .                 .                .
 .                 .                .
 .                 .                .
 .                 .                .

And the rest of the text goes to the next page.  

Remember, M-x artist-mode is your friend.  
           
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