On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 15:24, J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> > Thank you very much Jeremias. The documentation that I have not been
> > able to find is something that states whether this feature is WAD
> > (working as designed) or if it is just a known quirk/bug. If patches are
> > welcome then I guess it is the latter. =)
> 
> I believe when bookmars were introduced it didn't matter where they
> were declared in the FO document. With 0.20.1 or so streaming
> rendering was introduced in order to reduce memory consumption,
> and since then it matters. Bookmarks are regarded a "root" extension
> and will be 'rendered' when the end tag of the first page sequence
> is encountered. This means bookmarks must be completely declared
> *before* the first page sequence, or they'll just be dropped. I'm
> sure this is an unintended consequence, but one which bothers me
> *much* less than others.

This makes sense to me. I don't find the restriction onerous either, I
just want to document it. Thanks for the background information.

Philip




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