Subject: Re: About columns? From: Matthias Clasen <clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:11:11 +0200 |
> Matthias answer: > -------------------------------------------------------- > The trick here would be to implement page-sequence and column-set-sequence. > Unfortunately, nobody found it yet... > > Didier says: > ------------------------------------------------------- > I agree that this would be a solution and that this solution is not > necessarily obvious. Speaking more particularly of the way to implement > column-set-sequence, Nisheet (Netscape) reminded me that a non standard > feature in Mozilla allows colum rendition. It may (I just said may) be > possible to implement the colum-set-sequence object with the Mozilla column > rendition object. However, when I tried on paper a complex layout with > page-model and column-set-sequence, the Mozilla engine, even using the area > object (i.e. a CSS box object) is not sufficient. Now the question is: up to > where the DSSSL visual object model is implementable with current Open > source rendition engines. I someone has any answer please stand up. For my > part, I am at the beginning of my exploration. I guess the jades nonstandard ICs for column rendition pretty much cover the possibilities. > > Off course, in that case, the possible rendition capabilities are with the > Mozilla rendition objects (all objects are based on the block CSS model). To > fully use the rendition capabilities of the engine, this would require us to > fully implement the html backend and add new characteristics (like for > instance background-color) It may be simpler to write a new backend that directly goes FOT->Mozilla rendition objects. But improving the html backend would of course still be a laudable project. -- Matthias Clasen, Tel. 0761/203-5606 Email: clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mathematisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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