Re: Frontend suggestions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg111795] Re: Frontend suggestions
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:57:40 -0400 (EDT)
I realize that many people still believe in printed documents, or are forced to use them by requirements imposed by others. So for them pagination is important. Nevertheless, it is an ugly artifact imposed by the physical medium that has nothing to do with the information content. In electronic media reasonable Sectioning, governed by the subject matter, with moderate scrolling is a far better way to organize and present information. Electronic media have some of their own bad forms and one of these is the jump-link that jumps to a far distance part of the document to obtain an ancillary piece of information. An example might be a reference, or a distant equation that will be used at the reading point. Rather than jumping to another part of the document (jerking the reader around) the ancillary information should be brought to the point the reader is at. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ From: Vince Virgilio [mailto:blueschi at gmail.com] > > 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