Re: [xml-dev] A few questions about the file format.

[David Faure <faure@kde.org>]

(Forwarding on oasis a rather old discussion I started on xml-dev with Daniel)

> >>3.10.8/9/11  What is the difference between fo:font-family and style:font-name?
> 
> The style:font-name attribute refers to a <style:font-decl>.
>
> Basically, the font-decl mechanism adds a level f indirection so you 
> don't have to write the same information (font-family, font-pitch, etc.) 
> over and over again. You _can_ supply that information in the style 
> directly, but you can also ccollect it in the font-decl, and then refer 
> to it using style:font-name.
 
And style:font-style-name is a similar indirection, but which points to
a character style defined by the user, right?
 
> >>3.10.4    What is style:use-window-font-color? I can't make sense of the description.
> When people change background colors (e.g. to highlight something, or 
> for artistic reasons), they usually want their text to remain readable. 
> To support this, we support an 'automatic' text color (this is what the 
> UI calls it): On dark background this is white, and on a light 
> background this is some default color. This is encoded by the 
> style:use-window-font-color attribute. It's the OOo default behaviour 
> for text color.

Seems very difficult for another application to implement this, if the choice
of the color (depending on the bg color) isn't better specified. I suggest that
the actual algorithm to determine the text color from the bg color be part
of the file format documentation...

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David FAURE, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
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