> > * "document" : one page (or one set of pages if it's split into many pages) 
> > (equivalent to the "record" above)
> > * "page" : the viewable part of the document : a single part, when the 
> > viewer splits a long page
> 
> IMO, "page" could be used for both of these cases. Whether a page
> refers to the *visible* page or to the *whole* page is usually not
> a problem in practice.

I use "page" to refer to a single logical page (basically the text
and/or images associated with a single HMTL page), and "record" to
refer to an internal Plucker document structure which contains some
part of a page.  The "explode" tool and the GTK viewer glue together
all the records containing parts of a page before presenting them.
Eventually I hope the Palm viewer will also.

The document is always a document, but may in the narrow context of
the PalmOS be thought of as a "Palm database".

Bill

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