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Page numbers in output, -pipe?
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Franck Arnaud |
Subject: |
Page numbers in output, -pipe? |
Date: |
11 Sep 2001 15:03:44 GMT |
I've made my first raw Lout packages (not using standard
includes) and have a few minor questions:
How do you get page numbers into the postscript structural
comments? Did I miss it in the expert guide?
Also, the guide says that forced galleys allow to trigger page
flushes to save memory. Am I correct in thinking that I don't
need to use forced galleys at all if I don't mind having my whole
document processed entirely in memory -- which I suspect is
no problem with current PCs and documents shorter than the
complete works of D. Knuth.
As I use Lout as part of a pipe I wondered what would people
think of adding a "-pipe" kind of flag to lout, so that stdin is also
sent to stdout, to effect the multiple runs to resolve xrefs
conveniently, eg for 3 runs:
xslt .... | lout -pipe -o /dev/null | lout -pipe -o /dev/null | lout -o
out.ps
By the way, Lout is really great as a typesetting language, good
fun to program in. I was surprised on how easy it was to get it
to work as expected. And the beauty of Lout becomes evident
once the "// # don't ask" are gone (or explained), you don't
ever need to use macros, etc.
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