The page makeup problem

multiple text flows

floats

breaking (keeping, widows, auto-widths)

allocation of space, and minimization of distance

The designer's view of layout

Make it pretty

make it transparent

respect history, or violate it, but understand it

the highest level is somewhere between handicraft and art

problems

balancing

space stealing

Lout's approach

Galleys and holes

greedy constraint satisfaction

problems with balancing

parallel processing model

"forcing galleys"

attachment. attachment based on preceding/following

conditional page layout?

receptive symbols, that expand iff they are given something.

How to juggle these?

odd-even page forcing

conditional breaks

Things that you can do, but not obviously

a sequence of page masters

keeps