At 2008-10-03 11:48 -0700, Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
Ok, thanks for clarifying Ken, and your interpretation of the specs is
always very helpful, for example, I do not fully understand what
"inline-progression-dimension" means.
The dimension along the inline-progression-direction, that is "the
direction in which inline constructs stack on the page" ...
contrasted with the block-progression-direction which is "the
direction in which block constructs stack on the page" and its
corresponding block-progression-dimension. Both of which are
determined by the writing mode.
For our Western European writing, as well as Arabic, Hebrew or any
writing with an inline-progression-direction from left-to-right or
right-to-left, setting the width= sets the inline-progression-dimension.
However, always using the property width= is fluid because if the
writing mode is "tb-rl" (for traditional Han printing as in
newspapers) that is a specification for the
block-progression-dimension, not for the inline-progression-dimension.
I see most of my students using width= for table cells, which is fine
if they are only formatting left-to-right or right-to-left text, but
I try to encourage my students to use inline-progression-dimension=
and block-progression-dimension= so that the stylesheets are more
portable across different writing modes and the dimensions reflect
the text being flowed.
Unless, of course, they want the dimensions to be absolutely-oriented
to the physical page in which case width= and height= will give those
dimensions oriented thus regardless of the writing-mode= value.
When I'm lazy and not doing production work I just use width= and height=.
Check out: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xsl11-20061205/#d0e4413
I hope this helps your understanding.
. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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