A report that lays itself out

A title, a rule, two paragraphs, a heading, a table of twenty-six rows and a footnote, handed over in reading order and broken across two pages by the engine.

Placing a page by hand means knowing, before you write a word, how tall every paragraph will be. Translate one of them and every number below it is wrong. This page is drawn the other way round: the title, the rule, the paragraphs, the heading, the table and the footnote are handed over in the order they are read, and where each one goes is worked out from what the one above it came to.

The whole thing runs over two pages, and the break is not chosen by hand either. The table is cut wherever the room runs out and its heading row is drawn again at the top of the page it carries on onto. The closing paragraph is held together, so it is never left with one line alone at the foot of a page while the rest of it opens the next. The only figure written into this example is the height the page number sits at, which belongs to the sheet rather than to what is said on it — which is what makes the French page and the English one the same program.

What this example shows

• Blocks stacked in reading order: text, a table, rules and gaps.
• A table cut row by row, its heading row repeated on the next page.
• A paragraph held together rather than left with one line alone.

The code, in full

The same document is written twice, once in each language. Both files are shown in full, with the code coloured on the server, and can be copied in one click.

The document itself

The same document is written in each of these languages. Open the one you want to look at.

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What this document weighs

This document weighs 42,964 bytes.

The team wrote this example after measuring the documents above, so there is no earlier figure to set beside it. See every document measured.