Re: Place an annotation before it is defined

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>]

Am 07.01.2013 um 23:20 schrieb Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>:

> On 2013–01–07 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
>>> Blocks, in contrast to buffers, seem to be able to place content
>>> before it is defined. I did not check how they work, but since I
>>> didn't see any temporary files, the only possibility is to write the
>>> data to the tuc file, I assume. It is by any chance possible to
>>> provide a “method=block”?
>> 
>> Yes, blocks are stored in the tux-file while buffers are only stored in memory.
>> 
>> I played for a while with \setdataset to store the content but dropped it because
>> it required multiple runs and especially in the first run the output would be always
>> wrong
> 
> That's no problem IMO. Two-pass data is always wrong the first run.
> In the worst case, it needs an additional run if text moves around
> too much. But since it's just another method, which is optional,
> this only applies if it's activated and then the user knows what
> he/she is doing and that it might be slower.
> 
>> I can consider it as a optional method.
> 
> I think it would be a nice feature. It enables placement of elements
> where they logically belong, instead of where they are supposed to
> be printed. It's nothing mission critical though, but you can keep
> it in mind for a rainy afternoon.

You can try the beta from my bitbucket site [0] which uses a two mechanism
for named buffers (\startannotation[<NAME>] … \stopannotation) which can
be accessed with \getannotation[<NAME>].

[0] https://bitbucket.org/wolfs/annotation/src

Wolfgang
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