RE: [docbook-apps] Media attribute for docbook referenced css?

["Bort, Paul" <pbort@tmwsystems.com>]

Would the existing CSS "@media handheld {}" (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/media.html#media-types) be useful here? You could use it to make appropriate customizations to an existing stylesheet without having to completely define a new one.

Regards,
Paul Bort
Systems Engineer
TMW Systems, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: davep@dpawson.co.uk [mailto:davep@dpawson.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:10 AM
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Media attribute for docbook referenced css?
> 
> On 07/10/2012 07:20 AM, Niels wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > In this day and age where more users use small screens to read web
> > content, I have been looking for at possible media attribute to supply
> > to the output from the docbook stylesheets.
> >
> > It is possible to supply more css file references in <xsl:param
> > name="html.stylesheet">../../../globaLib/css/phone.css
> > ../../../globaLib/css/nmlDocbookUvmat.css
> > </xsl:param>
> >
> > and, as I understand you may supply one (1) <xsl:param
> > name="html.stylesheet.type">text/css</xsl:param>
> > which would then apply to all the css files, I suppose.
> >
> > I am looking for something like
> > <xsl:param name="html.stylesheet.media">only screen and (max-width:
> > 640px)</xsl:param> ie a media attribyte, which no-one has invented yet?
> >
> > Ideally you would need n sets of
> > <xsl:param name="html.stylesheet">...</xsl:param>
> > <xsl:param name="html.stylesheet.type">...</xsl:param>
> > <xsl:param name="html.stylesheet.media">...</xsl:param>
> > one set per stylesheet.
> >
> > Suitable for a change request?
> 
> I think it timely.
> No reason docbook shouldn't be widely used for the mobile platform.
> My main concern would be graphics? What happens to my 900px wide
> graphic?
> 
> DaveP
> 
> 
> 
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