A story that carries on further in

Two stories over two pages: each one begins in a column of the front page and carries on in a column of the second, and the two swap sides on the way. The file says which column follows which, so the reader goes on reading the story it is on.

This page is the whole program, for whoever writes your software. There is nothing here to read otherwise. Go back to the document it writes.

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This one is not a program. It is the request the document server is sent: the same page, asked for over the network by an application that writes no PDF code at all.

The library breaks each story once, to the width of one column, then hands the first patch as many of the broken lines as it has room for and the second patch the rest. A request has no block of words that runs from the foot of one patch into the head of the next, so each story travels as two blocks, each already holding the words its patch was handed. The lines fall in the same places, because a line is broken against the room in front of it, and the block that stops in the middle of its story says so, for its last line to be spaced out like the ones above it. The reading order itself is asked for the same way on both sides: two stories, each naming the two patches it is read through.

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