> > Mainly that data put into a diversion can't be completely
> > `unformatted'. I don't feel too well in manipulating already
> > formatted data...
>
> Oh, no, I wasn't thinking of unformatting the content of the
> diversion. I was thinking of having embedded vertical spacing
> macros in the diversion, which could be adjusted so that when the
> diversion was finally replayed onto the page, a properly aligned
> bottom margin would result. (See my tmac.diss at
> www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/people/hoffmann/roff.)
Yes, this looks promising.
> I believe TeX uses a similar concept (i.e., storing ready-formatted
> text), only they call it "boxes", not "diversions", and TeX has an
> optimizer to decide where to pagebreak, not just a simple
> vertical-position trap.
Well, in TeX I can always `\unhbox' or `\unvbox' a box to get back the
original contents, unmodified.
Werner
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