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Re: Frontend suggestions

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• Subject: [mg111769] Re: Frontend suggestions
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:52:45 -0400 (EDT)

"Page" may not be general enough a term: as Hans Michel wrote, he wants 
to use the construct in order to use side-by-side layout, too. Perhaps 
"Minipage" (as in LaTeX) would be better.

On 8/12/2010 5:30 AM, Vince Virgilio wrote:
> On Aug 11, 4:46 am, "Hans Michel"<hmic... at cox.net>  wrote:
>> The FE and the language itself needs a new expression between Notebook and
>> Cell (above CellGroup which is still a Cell) we need Compartment.
>> Compartments can exist side by side in the screen environment and content
>> can overflow into the next linked Compartment.
>>
>> With Compartment you can now do interactive pagination.
>
> SNIP
>
> No need for Neologisms.
>
> Why not simply call it a Page?
>
> As you imply, Pagination is a crucial concept.
>
> Vince Virgilio
>

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