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.

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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