[cl-typesetting-devel] multi-page documents

[Marc Battyani]

"Peter Seibel" <peter at javamonkey.com> writes:

...
> Cool. Thanks. That got me going. One oddity I noticed, at least when
> viewing these docs with xpdf on GNU/Linux: if a paragraph gets broken
> across a page, the text on the second page isn't colored. Any idea
> what's up with that?

Yes it's a bug ;-)
At the end of a draw box, the graphic state should be saved and restored for
the next draw box.

> <time passes>
>
> On a probably related note, check out my first crack at typesetting my
> book with cl-typesetting.
>
>   <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/chap1.pdf>

Great! A Lisp book in Lisp following the good old meta stuff tradition. :)

> Notice how the beginning of each page loses it's formatting. The code
> that generates this is at:

Yes, not very pretty.

>   <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/my-typeset.lisp>
>
> The problem seems to be related to the way I'm adding the header in
> draw-page. Poking around a bit I came up with theory that the
> make-filled-vbox function is grabbing boxes from the main contents but
> if the styles switch in the middle of a paragraph (as they do here
> because of the header) they don't get put back when the lines
> containing the rest of the paragraph are emitted. Of course that could
> be totally wrong--just a guess really.
>
> Anyway, if there's some better way to add a header, please let me
> know.

I will try to find some time to correct this. It should work.

Marc