On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater
luigi scarso wrote:
You cannot start processing page 500 before you know where page 499 wil end. []
Hm, not so sure. Think for example to a book with 3 chapters, and you know at priori that there are not relations
The root of the problem is that because TeX is a programming language as well as a typesetting engine, there is no way of knowing what the state of the engine will be after the next token has been read, never mind the next chapter.
I'm think at something like this %% here Global macros and data (better if readonly) %% \StartTask \chaper{..} : \StopTask \StartTask \chaper{..} : \StopTask \StartTask \chaper{..} : \StopTask ie **you** marked that contents between \StartTask and \StopTask are suitable for concurrency -- luigi