Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Is it time to rely on CSS?

[Matt Meola <matt.meola@vericept.com>]

Having read the comments, it appears to me that the main objections to 
using CSS come in two flavors:

A desire to simplify packaging and a desire to closely control the
presentation.

As for the packaging, I will demur.  As for the presentation, let me
state the following for general consideration:  among the open-source
browsers, it is becoming more common to allow for a user stylesheet
which is, by default, applied at the end of the CSS chain to every
page visited.  In this way, a user may customize things in a standard
way, and the stylesheet used may be so used by each browser.  Case in
point:  I have a single stylesheet that is used by Mozilla, Konqueror
and Galeon; I need only edit this one file to make those changes 
available to each browser.

If the stylesheets use CSS, it would allow a user to be able to view
docs in their style.  It would, correspondingly, take away
presentational control from the author.

My view:  HTML and pretty, author-controlled formatting just don't go
together.  If I, as an author, wish to distribute a doc that I know
will be viewed as I want it, then I'll generate PDF.



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Matt Meola    AFØD
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