RE: rule in page headers/footers

Subject: RE: rule in page headers/footers
From: "Frank A. Christoph" <christo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:54:55 +0900
> Looking at the previous posts, and at any number of books around
>the place,
> it would appear that a multi-line header is a fairly  common
>requirement in
> presented paper documents. Am I alone in thinking this. Dare one
>suggest
> that the std has got it wrong on this occasion?


I needed to have multiline footers for a style sheet I wrote some time
ago --- our client wanted to put a table(!) in the footer.  With the RTF
output engine, this was pretty impossible, so we had to convince them to
change the layout they wanted, if you can believe that.

So, yes, I agree that multiline headers/footers are a common requirement.
But before you criticize the holy grail--- I mean, the DSSSL online
standard, you should note that it is, after all, for online display and
simple tasks.  While I know that there are many HTML pages now that have
something resembling headers and footers, these things are not exactly
natural concepts for web pages.  And they aren't needed for simple
documents, at least according to my definition.

Of course, multiline headers/footers are child's play in full DSSSL.

--FC



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