Re: linetables broken?

Re: linetables broken?

[Hans Hagen]

On 21-2-2010 23:46, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Am 21.02.10 23:42, schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> Does that mean nothing is broken, but linetables need to be processed
>> in buffers?
>>
>> indeed, as they are processed in several passes
> But why can't tabulate grab the content, was this a memory problem in
> MkII? TABLE and tabulate use also several passes and don't need this.

linetables were writen for a project where tables could span 100 pages 
or more with tables being split in spreads and pages so indeed memory 
becomes an issue then

some day i might write a variant in lua

Hans

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