Re: [Texmacs-dev] Visual appearance of page breaks

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> working with TeXmacs to prepare a presentation, I realize how little feeling I
> get from TeXmacs about the "page-layout" (which is, of course, extremely
> important for a presentation) I think most of the problem comes from the fact
> that page breaks are only indicated by a thin gray line, instead of
> displaying something that really feels like separate pages. I believe the
> whole feeling for pages could be much improved by really cutting the pages
> apart, maybe even giving each one a black border and a tiny shadow effect
> (having the "paper" float above the gray background.
>
> Furthermore, it would really be nice to have the pages displayed in two or
> more columns. For documents with many pages you really need some way to gain
> an overview, and such a page-layout view would help a lot in this respect, I
> believe.

Yes, I agree that this would be nice and someone else already asked for it.
However, this can not be one of my personal priorities now. I *really*
have to focus on making the global architecture of TeXmacs sound and
well-documented so that other people can make these kinds of improvements.