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Re: AW: Re: Page breaks and numbers don't seem to work

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• Subject: [mg48931] Re: [mg48913] AW: [mg48895] Re: Page breaks and numbers don't seem to work
• From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
• Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:35:48 -0400 (EDT)
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Glue helps quite a bit; with it, Mathematica is lousy at pagination, rather than ridiculous.

Bobby

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:51:06 -0400 (EDT), <Matthias.Bode at oppenheim.de> wrote:

> Hello Robert and Steve,
>
> please have a look at Selwyn Hollis':
>
>     http://www.appliedsymbols.com/mmacalc/index.html#calc
>
> At the bottom of the page you will find the palette "Glue" designed to
> facilitate page breaks &c.
>
> Best regards,
> Matthias Bode
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>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Steve Gray [mailto:stevebg at adelphia.net]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Juni 2004 11:32
> An: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Betreff: [mg48895] Re: Page breaks and numbers don't seem to work
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:21:49 +0000 (UTC), "Robert Boeninger"
> <robert at boeninger.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>>  As a newcomer to Mathematica, I am unable to figure out how to do
>> something very simple - have the page numbers display correctly (on the
>> lower left of a page), and have the pages print out with pagebreaks at the
>> same locations indicated by the page tick-marks in the on-screen notebook.
> I
>> have tried every conceivable thing to get this to work. This must be a very
>> elementary thing to accomplish, wouldn't you all agree?
>>
>>    I'm dealing with a pure text-Syle notebook using Mathematica 5.0.
>
> 	In my limited experience in using Mathematica's typesetting and
> other
> user-connected features, there are a large number of bugs, weird
> behaviors and unexplained occurrences. I would not use it for
> preparing final ouitput. Others will disagree with me, but I regard
> Mathematica as pretty user-hostile.
> 	Documentation, while extensive, is inadequate in my view. I
> usually can't find what I want.
> 	With sufficient motivation, I could describe some of the bugs
> I mentioned, but I'm too busy right now.
>
> Steve Gray
>
>



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