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> Paul Tchistopolskii writes:
>  >  
>  > > I wish you would show me, then, how to do a simple dictionary layout,
>  > > where the running head is
>  > >  foo ... bar
>  > > where "foo" is the first headword on the page, and "bar" is the last. 
>  > > yes, I know this is very obscure for many people, its what I call a
>  > > production environment. Yes, this is probably an XSL FO question, not
>  > > a RenderX question.
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>  > Could you please take a look at http://www.renderx.com/Tests/
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> Possibly I am going mad, but the test.fo and test.pdf here seem to
> illustrate something else entirely. Curiously, it is something I am
> interested in, but it isnt running heads....

Not just curiosly. We were taking into account one of  your 
old letters, thinking that you are talking mostly about the problem 
which is common to both usecases and makes is OK  to be 
solved on the level of FOs.

As to whole running heads stuff. It may be interesting to 
render such ( exotic ) usecase you are talking about. 

It seems that we both may get better understanding on how 
easy is it  to switch from the typical 'day-to-day' formatter to 
XSL FO based formatter if: 

You will prepare the XML testcase and the expected 
result of rendering in PDF format using the existing 
day-to-day formatter ( also I'm sure that you'l  use some 
package around the core formatter. I don't think there is 
some formatter that supports such an exotoc fuctionlaity 
in the core API ).
 
  You'l  send us the .xml and PDF file ( no need in any
stylesheets,  macroses or scripts you use. 
Just XML input and PDF output is fine ).

  We'l then render it and provide our comments.

  I think it's fair enough, because we'l spend much 
more time solving the puzzle than you will spend
preparing the puzzle and we have no clientes who 
are interested in anything like those runnig heads.

   I consider it to be kind of  scientific experiement. If 
you have no time for preparing such an experiement  -
please ignore this message - we have no time either.
It's up to you.

 All the best.

Rgds.Paul.

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