Peter:

>     If LaTeX3 can support arbitrary areas on the page then your
> suggestion of any number/location of head/foot areas is interesting.
> On the other hand, the zero-sized picture method seems to provide an
> adequate means of putting things at specified positions on the page.

Then, let's imagine the following: a GUI (Perl/Tk, Python/Tkinter,
Java/Swing... what you like) which will allow to draw the areas
in the page and define their meanings -- page dependent and "flowing".
Unfortunately, flow text areas must have the same width (well, if these
areas contain only text one could devise a way to change the width
by measuring the remaining space and then applying \parshape if
necessary). While still limited (no text wrapping figures), it would
make *a lot* easier to design more fancier layouts.

Javier
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