Re: [office] Style properties questions/requests

[Michael Brauer <michael.brauer@sun.com>]

Hi Paul,

Paul Grosso wrote:
> At 17:33 2003 08 15 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> 
>>On Friday 15 August 2003 15:30, Michael Brauer wrote:
>>
>>>Hi David,
>>>
>>>David Faure wrote:
>>>
>>>>Text properties:
>>>>
>>>>style:text-crossing-out (3.10.6) doesn't have support for stylelines (solid, dash, dot, dashdot, dashdotdot)
>>>>KOffice supports crossing out text with various style of lines.
>>>>
>>>>style:text-underline (3.10.22) should separate the number of lines (single/double) from the style of the lines (dotted etc.).
>>>>This allows more combinations, like double-dotted, etc.
>>>>The presence of all the bold-* values also suggests that bold should be separated.
>>>
> 
> If we are going to redesign this, we might want to look at XSL and 
> CSS properties and try to match them where feasible.
> 
> For example, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#text-decoration
> and http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#propdef-text-decoration

The CSS2 text-decoration is not usable with office suite style 
inheritance, because it does not support switching underlining off 
without switching crossing-out and blinking off simultaneously. This has 
been fixed in XSL-FO, but XSL-FO does not support different styles for 
underlining and crossing-out.

> 
> There is also http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#text-decoration-overview
> which is more involved (which may be good or bad, depending on how you
> look at it).

The CSS3 specification seems to be a good basis for us. Only a set of 
line styles are missing.

> 
> paul
> 

Best regards

Michael