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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

410.0. "Bleed Tabs?" by DECWET::CUSTER () Thu May 21 1987 17:21

    In case your wishlist isn't big enough yet, I've got an item to
    add to it.  :-)
    
    In a manual I'm currently writing, it would be very useful to be able
    to produce those little black boxes on the edge of a page to identify
    various sections of a manual. (My editor has just informed me that
    these are called "bleed tabs.") 
    
    It would be great if DOCUMENT could provide a tag such as:
    
    <BLEED_TAB>(Text in Box)
    	.
    	.
    	.
    <ENDBLEED_TAB>
    
    to indicate the page at which the tab should stop or a new one
    should begin.
    
    Maybe this isn't possible in TEX, though.  Just wishing....
    
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410.1DECWET::KOSAKThu May 21 1987 17:545
    This would be especially useful for perfect bound books.  From what
    I hear, our users greatly prefer perfect binding to our present
    three-ring method.
    
    -- Craig
410.2can make it an itemCLOSET::ANKLAMThu May 21 1987 18:496
    
    This has come up before; the problem isn't with TeX so much as the
    drivers. The LPS-40, in particular, won't let you print anything
    that it deems is too close to the edge of a page. 
    
    -patti