[cl-typesetting-devel] Page n of m?

[Marc Battyani]

Bob Hutchison wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2004, at 4:31 AM, Marc Battyani wrote:
>
> > The new version is on the repositories.(get cl-pdf also)
> > Please tell me if this works in your case now.
>
> I've checked this out, and it works for all of my other examples as
> well. Thanks.

Great.
 ...
> It looks as though we can have a stack of values with contextual
> variables, so I guess this means that I could keep track of the current
> section title, pushing and popping as the sections nest. What did you
> have in mind for these?

Exactly this kind of stuff.

> I also see that there are contextual actions. What did you have in mind
> for these? What kind of thing can you do here? When are these called?
> They are triggered by the stroke method, so these are executed at
> drawing time?

It's to be able to execute arbitrary lisp code when we reach some point on
the page.
Like putting a mark or a symbol in the margin for instance.
I'm not sure this will be used every day but who knows? ;-)

Marc