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Subject: Re: [office] Sidenotes
At 13:53 2003 03 30 -0600, Philip Boutros wrote: >Hi > >After reviewing a number of current and historical word processors and >formatting languages I can provide the following information on >sidenotes. > >What are they: >Look here (http://www.info.com.ph/~etan/w3pantheon/style/sidenotes.html) >for a CSS-based example. > >Who has them: >At this point no major word processor has sidenotes although all can >simulate the effect using text frames. They can also be simulated using >CSS, XSL-FO (Paul Grosso please confirm this), PDF, etc. but not >explicitly declared. Sidenotes are not really support in XSL-FO. About all you could do is try to do something with the list-* FOs with a negative left margin on the "list-item", but this is not what I would call support. XSL-FO does include some "side float" capability like CSS, but this generally only works when the "floated" thing has intrinsic dimens such as a graphic, so this doesn't really provide a solution for side notes. >DSSSL put them in a category called marginalia >(Google it) and appears to support them. Interstingly the XSL >requirements document (http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-XSLReq) specifically >calls out sidenotes and marginalia but it appears they didn't make it in >(Paul?). The idea of that requirements document was to list everything anyone could think of--you might say these were the requirements for XSL version infinity. They were never intended to be requirements of version 1.0. (I wasn't a fan of this plan, but there you have it.) Early on into the development of XSL 1.0, we agreed that sidenotes and marginalia would not be supported by XSL 1.0. >My take: >Given that no major current word processor or formatting language >supports their declaration I would say we don't need to add sidenotes to >the open office specification. I agree. paul
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