Re: Controlling repeatable headers and footers

> On May 6, 2020, at 18:55, Arthur Attwell <arthur@arthurattwell.com> wrote:
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> Thanks, Florian. This is fascinating and really thorough. For what it's worth, it would be very useful in the paged-media work we do at Electric Book Works. Some books (like teacher's guides for school books) are very table-heavy, and this kind of control would make a huge difference on both screen and print.

This came out of actual customer requirements in a table-heavy document, so I'm not at all surprised others who deal with that sort of content come to the same conclusion. But it is reassuring :-) 

> I also appreciated your note about the potential ability to inject a phrase like 'continued' on subsequent repeats -- not being able to do that (in Prince, at least, in my experience) is one of those disappointing trade-offs I sometimes have to explain when introducing an InDesign-based team to CSS layout.

Right, I think that would be useful on its own, and doubly so in combination with this repeated header/footer thing. However, I think this is quite a bit more complicated to do right. But I hope we do get to it eventually.

—Florian

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