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Re: portable LaTeX
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Sat, 19 Dec 1998 08:51:33 -0500
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At 04:09 PM 12/16/98 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:28:30AM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>> no. with pdfTeX you can get direct access to PDF as you
>> compose the TeX. an obvious example where pdftex is needed is
>> to allow breaking of links across lines and pages

>But can PDF break links across pages ? --
>it's quite surprising if it can,
>as it seems very page-oriented.
>I thought a link had to belong to a page ?

That is the point.  You have to split the link into two parts before
you turn it into PDF code.  Which is a non-trivial exercise in TeX!


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