Re: zero-length runs

Subject: Re: zero-length runs
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 18:15:53 CST

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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:

>
> I know Jeff was never thrilled with the behavior of FmtMarks either, but
> until someone comes up with a better mechanism, that one should probably
> stay.
>
> Other than those two cases, do we have any other zero-length runs? The code
> could certainly get a lot simpler in places if we didn't constantly have to
> work around them.

I *THINK* that all special formating is done with zero length runs. These
include:

Line breaks
Page Breaks
Column breaks
Fields

As Jesper can attest Line breaks, page breaks and column breaks cause lots
of headaches.

Martin

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