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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Stylesheet languages and giving you fine controlover where things go
Richard Sharpe writes: > For example, I might want to place the word Preliminary diagonally > across the back of every page in outline form, with the primary text > appearing in front of it. I dont regard that as part of styleheets. its more like cropmarks - you would add them to a stylesheet, would you? > In some cases, I also want to be able to take a block of text and center > it, vertically, on a page. I don't seem to be able to do that with > DSSSL. Don't know about XSL(T). trivial in XSL.... just set space-before and space-after to small minima and large maxima > For example, I want to have text on one side of the header aligning with > the bottom of a graphic on the other side. Indeed, the decision in DSSSL > to divide the header up into three regions seems to have been a mistake. > I would rather that it be one area that I can decide how to format. use XSL.... > I would also like to be able to insert text at any angle I want to. use XSL > What stylesheet languages give me these? XSL does I dont say that the _implementations_ do.... sebastian
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