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Re: Re: A proposal to clarify the semantics of DocBookgraphics
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:47:54AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:47:41PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> > / Rory Hunter <roryh@fenriz.org> was heard to say:
> > | Something like, mediawidth vs. reproductionwidth (but not to pretentious)?
> >
> > I take your point. Unfortunately, removing the existing attributes
> > would require waiting until DocBook V6.0. And the semantics of the
> > existing attributes are reproductionwidth and reproductiondepth.
>
> Maybe I'm just confused, but I'd rather distinguish:
>
> physicalwidth (or mediawidth)
> the actual width of the image
>
> viewportwidth
> the width of the area in which the image is to be reproduced
>
> reproductionwidth
> the effective width of the image
>
>
> If I understand well, in the current proposal "width" stands for my
> "reproductionwidth", "contentwidth" stands for my "physicalwidth", and
> we have nothing for my "physicalwidth". Right ?
In order to prevent further confusion,
can you restate that last paragraph?
You used "physicalwidth" twice. 8^)
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