Subject: Re: "rule" object in Jade/RTF From: Brandon Ibach <bibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:11:49 -0500 |
Quoting Toby Speight <streapadair@xxxxxxx>: > Brandon> From a practical standpoint, however, I'd call this a bug in > Brandon> the standard. It is so common for rules to be horizontal > Brandon> that it makes sense for this to be the default, I think. > > That's arguable: I'd say that rules tend to be more common parallel to > the progression direction. So while I agree with you for left-to-right > or right-to-left text, I think you'll find horizontal rules to be in > the minority for vertical text. > I can certainly agree with that. Perhaps the standard should allow options for this property which specify the orientation in terms of the progression direction, with "parallel" being the default. > This could be defaulted in the standard, but it's not *that* onerous > to always specify, is it? (I think it makes DSSSL code clearer, given > that we tend to perceive vertical and horizontal lines as different > things.) > I could agree with that, too, as long as the implementation issues at least a warning for a rule object with no orientation specified. As it stands, so far as I have seen, the [Open]Jade code would simply ignore the rule object, if it weren't for the default. This is not a nice trick to pull on an unsuspecting user. ;) -Brandon :) DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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