X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["522" "Wed" "16" "December" "1998" "16:09:25" "+0000" "Timothy Murphy" "tim@MATHS.TCD.IE" nil "17" "Re: portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17556; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:09:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <7.57B0A07F@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:09:45 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413567 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:09:42 +0100 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA18071 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:09:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from boole.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 16 Dec 98 16:09:27 +0000 (GMT) References: <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <13943.35662.403959.906992@srahtz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Message-ID: <19981216160925.A18738@maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <13943.35662.403959.906992@srahtz>; from Sebastian Rahtz on Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:28:30AM +0000 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:09:25 +0000 From: Timothy Murphy Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3184 On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:28:30AM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > no. with pdfTeX you can get direct access to PDF as you > compose the TeX. an obvious example where pdftex is needed is > to allow breaking of links across lines and pages But can PDF break links across pages ? -- it's quite surprising if it can, as it seems very page-oriented. I thought a link had to belong to a page ? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland