Re: Pagination experiences

2000-09-22 Thread Jose L. Rodriguez Illera
time to build the index. Regards, Jose Luis - José L. Rodríguez Illera Universitat de Barcelona Passeig Vall d'Hebron, 171 08035 Barcelona --E > > From: "Geoff Canyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Pagination experiences > Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17

Re: Pagination experiences

2000-09-22 Thread Geoff Canyon
on 9/21/00 6:26 PM, Kevin Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> ...By slow I mean more than a second on a fast computer. > > That sounds quite fast: how fast do you need it to be? Actually, now that you mention it, it is. :-) MetaCard is amazing. But still, one second on a fast machine could be

Re: Pagination experiences

2000-09-21 Thread Scott Raney
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Geoff Canyon wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone here has experience writing pagination routines in > MetaCard. I'm considering writing a routine that would take a 50-100k block > of text, a font, a font size, a field size, and figure out where the page > breaks should occur fro

Re: Pagination experiences

2000-09-21 Thread Kevin Miller
On 22/9/00 1:51 am, Geoff Canyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone here has experience writing pagination routines in > MetaCard. I'm considering writing a routine that would take a 50-100k block > of text, a font, a font size, a field size, and figure out where the page > brea

Pagination experiences

2000-09-21 Thread Geoff Canyon
I'm wondering if anyone here has experience writing pagination routines in MetaCard. I'm considering writing a routine that would take a 50-100k block of text, a font, a font size, a field size, and figure out where the page breaks should occur from beginning to end. The actual goal is to be able