Right now we paginate our text. New system will allow easier photo pagination. Yes, all News hires are trained on Dewar as needed. Some also are sent to Photoshop training. We will conduct training in 1999 on Quark, Word, Windows.
Extra pages are okay.
The technological advances of the past 10 years have allowed for greater control of content presentation. What we have now are executive editors that have no conception of what it takes to do production work because they never dealt with pagination. There is a chasm that exists between the executive editors' theory and the copy desks' reality. This is a good newspaper made better because our desk contains good people who care and have the skills necessary to do the work either better than average, or excellently.