Re: <PAGE> proposal
William C. Cheng (william@cs.columbia.edu)
Sat, 23 Dec 1995 11:03:51 -0500
Eric S. Raymond <esr@locke.ccil.org> wrote:
| > I agree to some extent, but I find the idea of document controlled
| > pagination limiting, regardless of the technical implementation.
|
| This objection, and all others like it, fails to address one of my central
| points. Please try to stop thinking of <PAGE> as document-controlled
| pagination (though I certainly want to use it that way) and start thinking
| of it as an attempt to decouple display behavior from underlying file
| representation.
But it seems to me that having separate scrollable sections _couples_
display behavior with file representation. <PAGE> doesn't seem to have
any meaning to anything but displays (or printing, which is another kind
of display).
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