On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:53:59AM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: > > The point is that the program treats tunes as individual entities, displaying > an index of titles which can be sorted in various ways (alphabetically, > numerically by ID or by position in file). When the user issues a print > command, the program retrieves the selected tunes from the index in the > current order, creates a picture of each, and then fits the pictures > together to make printed pages. Under these circumstances, %% directives > which are not attached to a particular tune are meaningless.
ISTM more that "directives" like %%pagebreak (or is it %%newpage, sorry ?) refer to the layout of a collection of tunes, not to a single tune - they are only meaningful when the collection stays in that order; as soon as you start thinking about reordering tunes, or selecting only some, anything referring to the overall structure of the original becomes meaningless. Like the example given - start a new page before the first of a bunch of reels and print a page-heading. If this has to be attached to a particular tune, what happens when you sort them in a different order and that one's no longer the first ? -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
