X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["779" "Sat" "19" "December" "1998" "08:51:33" "-0500" "Y&Y Inc." "support@YANDY.COM" nil "20" "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 OAA10800; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:54:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.F8E81778@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:54:41 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413332 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:54:38 +0100 Received: from mail-out-0.tiac.net (mail-out-0.tiac.net [199.0.65.247]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25698 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 14:54:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail-out-4.tiac.net (mail-out-4.tiac.net [199.0.65.16]) by mail-out-0.tiac.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA18454 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 08:54:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from support@YandY.com) Received: from yandy (p21.tc1.metro.MA.tiac.com [209.61.75.22]) by mail-out-4.tiac.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA17190 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:53:30 GMT (envelope-from support@YandY.com) X-Sender: yandy@pop.tiac.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 References: <13943.35662.403959.906992@srahtz> <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" Message-ID: <4.1.19981219085021.00a8ebc0@pop.tiac.net> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <19981216160925.A18738@maths.tcd.ie> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 08:51:33 -0500 From: "Y&Y Inc." 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: 3209 At 04:09 PM 12/16/98 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: >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 ? That is the point. You have to split the link into two parts before you turn it into PDF code. Which is a non-trivial exercise in TeX! Y&Y, Inc. phone: (508) 371-3286 fax: (508) 371-2004 (USA) mailto:support@YandY.com mailto:sales@YandY.com http://www.YandY.com http://www.YandY.com/unique.htm