From: rubyhacker@...
Date: 2005-10-14T02:01:53+09:00
Subject: Re: A (minor) coding challenge

I knew somebody would bring that up. :)

My gut feeling is that a page break can take the place
of an arbitrary number of newlines. So I guess that means
they are "consumed" in the page break. Additionally it
seems "wrong" to start a page with blank lines.

The only reason for preserving the extra blank lines is
in case the text happened to use them significantly, e.g.,
to separate sections or before/after an inset quotation.

I also haven't addressed the issue of paragraphs that are
longer than the page. Fortunately, most/all of the text won't
be Faulkner. ;)

Now to learn a bit of PDF::Writer... at/after the conf, of course.


Hal