{A proposal to construct pagination as a three-step cookie-cutter process}
{S.K. Venkatesan}
{Standard typesetting engines do H\&J and pagination together as a
single step; we suggest that it be split into a three-step
process. In the first step, hyphenation and justification is done on
each paragraph and in the second step vertical glue is applied to
create a scroll with as much height as the content it contains. We show
how using cookie-cutter algorithms it is possible to break the content
into multiple pages with required results. The flexibility that this
three-step proceedure offers has many interesting possibilities and
layouts. We also show that this produces pages much faster.}