I was looking for an extension to support pagination in Joomla! articles, but it turns out that Joomla! 1.5 has that feature built in.  How very convenient.

Update March 21, 2010: Joe asked for elaboration, so here it is.  Pagination is breaking content up into multiple pages.  You see this frequently on news and magazine style sites.  They’ll tell you that it’s so you don’t have to scroll constantly to read the whole article.  That’s crap.  It’s so they can display more ads.  Every time you click to go to the next page, they serve up a new batch of ads.  Note that you may not have to scroll, but you have to click.  I don’t think that this is motivated by any desire to spare your mouse finger.

Having said that, some clients want the functionality.  I’m working on a proposal right now for such a client, so I needed to know how to supply the functionality.  That motivated my (brief) investigation and subsequent discovery.