At 03:01 PM 3/25/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>I can quickly think of a practical use. My Letter Head lists my position
>and affilition at Melbourne Uni in a column on one side of a png image of
>the Unimelb logo and contact details in a column on the other side of the
>logo. Right now these are contained in a seperate section of my template
>file for letters from me to other people. When we also allow different
>headers on the front/even/odd pages it would make sense to put all that
>into the header itself.

Good example.  To do letterheads properly, we'll need to implement both of 
the following post-1.0 features:

  - allow tables in headers/footers
  - implement "first page special" for distinct header/footers

I still haven't heard a good use case for columns there, though.  

While some of the formatting abstractions may be similar, the following 
assertion still holds:

  "columns != tables"

:-)

Paul

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