Re: Aribtrary positioning of displayed flow objects

[Richard Light <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <352f14d0.451825643@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steve Schafer
<pandeng@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>With judicious selection of column and row heights, and spanning cells
>across columns and rows, I can achieve this by using a "meta-table"
>that encloses the entire block of tables. I'm just wondering if there
>is a better way.

In general, I think the 'better way' would need to involve the full
page-sequence flow object type.  As far as I know, we don't have an
implementation of this, so what follows is rather theoretical ...

A page-sequence includes page-region-specifications, each of which has a
user-specified x- and y-origin.  It also has a fixed width and height.
Page-regions may overlap.

Richard Light

Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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