On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater<t...@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> luigi scarso wrote:
>>>
>>> You cannot start processing page 500 before you know where page 499
>>> wil end. []
>
>> Hm, not so sure. Think for example to a book with 3 chapters, and you
>> know at priori that there are not relations
>
> The root of the problem is that because TeX is a programming language
> as well as a typesetting engine, there is no way of knowing what
> the state of the engine will be after the next token has been read,
> never mind the next chapter.
I'm think at something like this
%%
here Global macros and
data
(better if readonly)
%%
\StartTask
\chaper{..}
:
\StopTask
\StartTask
\chaper{..}
:
\StopTask
\StartTask
\chaper{..}
:
\StopTask
ie **you** marked that contents between \StartTask and \StopTask are
suitable for concurrency
--
luigi
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