X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil] [nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]) Date: Wed, 04 Jul 90 15:25:37 CET From: Rainer Schoepf Organization: Inst. f. Theor. Physik d. Univ. Heidelberg Subject: RE: Beware of the Second System Syndrome (not only regarding liats) To: POPPELIER@HUTRUU53.uucp Cc: PZF5HZ@DRUEDS2.uucp In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 4 Jul 90 12:14 N Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 156 On Wed, 4 Jul 90 12:14 N you said: > >Rainer, instead of 'table of contents' I suggest 'auxiliary files, >reading from & writing to'. > Oh, yes, I was looking for a better word. But that is only part of the story. The layout of things like the table of contents is nearly as complicated as that of a section heading. This struck me recently when I bought a book and saw the layout of the table of contents. It is `Geometry, Manifolds, and Physics', part 2, by Choquet-Bruhat, and published by Elsevier (or was it `Topology, Manifolds, and Physics'?) I'm really interested in what you have done. Recently we (Chris Rowley, Frank and myself) discussed the problem of writing stuff to the .aux file. Frank then came up with the idea that LaTeX should only read the information relevant to one page at a time in order to save memory. We don't know yet how to implement this, but it would solve at lot of problems. Rainer