OR consolidation

[FrankMittelbach]

Internal housekeeping

Status of pull request

• Feedback wanted
• Under development

Checklist of required changes before merge will be approved

• [n/a] Test file(s) added
• Version and date string updated in changed source files
• Relevant \changes entries in source included
• Relevant changes.txt updated
• Rollback provided (if necessary)?
• ltnewsX.tex (and/or latexchanges.tex) updated

[FrankMittelbach]

At this point in time I'm just looking for feedback on code and names for the sockets and hooks. If those are ok, then the next step is integration and consolidation of the documentation (and the a final review).

[davidcarlisle]

I'm not overly fond of OR I think because it's hard not to read it as the boolean connective or, even when you've been using it in this way for decades.

Other possibilities are longer though. output is one possibility output/column/outputbox doesn't read too badly.
shipout also comes to mind but may get confusing with existing shipout hooks.

[FrankMittelbach]

Other possibilities are longer though. output is one possibility output/column/outputbox doesn't read too badly.
shipout also comes to mind but may get confusing with existing shipout hooks.

I would argue that "shipout" is wrong, as these and hooks sockets apply even if during shipout everything is aborted, so these are really different things: this here is building the page regardless of what later happens with it and shipout is shipping something out that has been preconstructed earlier by this OR. Another possible name could therefore be something like buildpage/page/outputbox or just build/... since the next level is always "page" or "column"

[davidcarlisle]

since the next level is always "page" or "column"

Ah. build works quite well then

[u-fischer]

Do packages like manyfoot or reledmac need more sockets or hooks for additional footnote systems?

[FrankMittelbach]

Do packages like manyfoot or reledmac need more sockets or hooks for additional footnote systems?

• with its current implementation manyfoot does not (it simply uses the column/before hook)
• reledmac overwrites \@makecol so will work in that respect, but if it could be implemented using the existing hooks or needs further ones remains to be seen.

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