Re: Columns in Norm's DocBook Stylesheets?

["Kendall G. Clark" <kendall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Norman Walsh wrote:

> / "Kendall G. Clark" <kendall@xxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
> | There doesn't appear to be support for columns yet in Norm Walsh's DocBook
> | Stylesheets. Or, I should say, I can't find any place to define columns.
> | 
> | Can someone point me in the right direction? Norm, if there isn't any
> | support for columns yet, do you have any interest in that?
> 
> Well, there's not much support for columns on a
> simple-page-sequence, so I'm not sure there's much to do.  I'll
> be happy to add parameters for the characteristics:
> 
>   page-n-columns 
>   page-column-sep 
>   page-balance-columns? 

Ok. I probably didn't make myself clear. I don't really want to define
different column structures on a per-page basis but, rather, setup a
column structure for 'big' things like <chapter>.

[snippage]

>    ---------
>    | 1 | 2 |
>    |   |   |
>    |   |   |
>    |   |   |
>    ---------
> 
> And the flow runs strictly from 1 to 2 without any user-control.

That would be a start. Do we get that if you include the 3 parameters
above?

Best,

	Kendall Clark


 DSSSList info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist