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Re: Bad vertical postionning of a footer table
- To: rsharpe at ns dot aus dot com, Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Bad vertical postionning of a footer table
- From: "M. Wroth" <mark at astrid dot upland dot ca dot us>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 06:23:12 -0700
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An unimplemented feature. (Open)JADE supports only a subset of DSSSL (a
very useful subset :-) plus some specific extensions. As I read the
standard, there is a huge jump between a simple-page-sequence and a
page-sequence. The former is intended for, well, simple pages. The latter
is in theory capable of just about any layout I can imagine. But it's so
complex that it hasn't been implemented.
By dividing the printed world into page-sequences and
simple-page-sequences, the authors of the standard provided an obvious
starting place for implementors. But the simple-page-sequence is a fairly
limited model for full scale publishing.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the energy of those who write such things
seems to have turned to XML tools and XSL. I think I understand why, but
it's unfortunate for DSSSL.
At 09:31 PM 9/21/01 +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>Norman Walsh wrote:
>>/ Yann Dirson <ydirson@alcove.fr> was heard to say:
>>| I'm trying to put a table in the center-footer of a document. I | have
>>| written a small customisation layer above Norm's stylesheets to do
>>| that, but get a strange vertical positionning of the table.
>>Uh, DSSSL footers in a simple-page-sequence aren't allowed to be
>>multi-line.
>
>Why? Another of those arbitrary restrictions?
>
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