Page Numbers and Spaces

[nwaugh]

I’ve got two questions/problems:







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Is there
a setting or a hack that would provide the user with the logical page number
that he/she is on? Since Arbortext is able to provide pagination
information to the print spooler, shouldn’t it be pretty easy to provide
that information to the user in real-time? While my ideal world would
include Word-style dotted lines marking pages, I’d settle for on-screen
feedback in the form of a number.







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Is there
a way to automate the creation of double spaces in Arbortext? I’m
pretty sure that XML doesn’t support two subsequent spaces and any
processor handling said XML would output a single space. When a user hits
“spacebar, spacebar,” I’d like there to be a mechanism for
adding in concrete breaking (or non-breaking) spaces. Is there a way to
do this, or is there a better solution?







Thanks in advance for any help you can
provide.

[jdreystadt]

The Arbortext Editor does not track the page information in real-time
and this would not be easy to add. It does show hard page breaks but
that is all. So there is no way to get an on-screen feedback in the form
of a number.

Why do you want to automate the creation of double spaces? I am asking
because this may not be an issue at all. Most of the time that I have
seen people ask for this, they are trying to automate the insertion of
double spaces at the end of a sentence so that there is more white space
after the period than there would be between normal words in a
paragraph. But the formatter does this for you, the author does not need
to add additional space.


John Dreystadt
Software Development Director
Arbortext - PTC
734-327-6079
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[ptc-1908075]

I'm not saying this is possible, but . . .

Why are your users interested in the page numbers? What is your application? What DTD?

Suzanne Napoleon

www.FOSIexpert.com

In a message dated 10/10/2006 11:09:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, nwaugh@jonesmcclure.com writes:

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