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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Bad vertical postionning of a footer table
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? > >-- >Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, LPIC-1 >www.samba.org, www.ethereal.com, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba >in 24 Hours, Special Edition, Using Samba > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription >manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> Mark B. Wroth <mark@astrid.upland.ca.us>
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