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Date:         Wed, 9 Feb 1994 20:18:19 +0000
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@SC>
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Subject:      Re: Continuation lines
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The appended message was not processed properly. I'm hereby forwading
it to the list.

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> Mike wrote:
> >
> > %>> How do you get LaTeX to insert continuation lines saying
> > %>>
> > %>>                              Question xx continued on next page
> > %>
> > %>Use marks and put them in the footline.
> >
> > The footer is already in full use:
> >
> > pressmark                  page                        Turn Over

> ``put them in the footline'' is not to take literally if we talk about
> _implementation_ of some effect. It means use \@footline (or however it
> is called in LaTeX) to put your bloody sentence there.
>     Such a sentence should be a bit outside the ``Seitenspiegel''
> (don't know the English term, perhaps `page area') anyhow.

> > also, that doesn't solve the problem of the question number reappearing on
> > the next page, followed by (continued)

> Set a flag, utilize the headline to check for that flag.

>         Joachim

> Joachim Schrod                  Email: schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
> Computer Science Department
> Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

When I faced the same problem doing commerical computerized in the middle
1970's, my solution resembled, for level of the document structure.

        A. Send a tag line to be produced for the bottom of the page if
           the next text item starts on this page but does not complete.
        B. Send another tag line to be produced at the top of the next
           page under the same condition.
        C. Send the text item.

By default, tag lines were inherited from text item to text item.  Sending
a A type tag line cleared the B type tag line of the current level and all
tag lines of deeper level.  A level could be cleared of all tag lines by
sending a null (empty) tag (I had a special blank line form that could be
used for the special case of needing a blank tag line).  All outstanding
tag lines (both footers for the current page and headers for the next page)
need to be accounted for in the page layout.  If tag lines are not needed,
they simply are not used.

The form of the file going into page layout resembled:

A.                              Question 1 continued on next page
B. Question 1 continued from previous page
T. 1. Describe in 50 words or less a renormalizable quantam physics including
      gravity.  Do not use any mathematics above high school algebra.
A.                              Question 2 continued on next page
B. Question 2 continued from previous page
T. 1. Do an appendicotomy on your self.  Leave the incision open so that
      your work can be examined.

and so forth.

Possibly this can be an idea for a future facility to be added?

Randolph J. Herber, herber@fnalv.fnal.gov, +1 708 840 2966, CD/HQ - CDF
(Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.)
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