At 20.10 +0100 2003-03-17, Javier Bezos wrote: >Then, let's imagine the following: a GUI (Perl/Tk, Python/Tkinter, >Java/Swing... what you like) For (La)TeXies in general, I would think the original combination of Tcl/Tk is more comfortable. Tcl's approach that "everything is a string" is straightforward and very flexible. As for all the zero-sized picture thingies that has been discussed, I have to say that I don't quite understand what is meant. Is the idea to construct the box to ship out from zero-sized pieces that are positioned relative to some fixed point of reference? (The current approach is simply to stack page header, body, and footer in a \vbox, is it not?) Lars Hellström