Re: RTF styles from jade? (was Re: (dsssl) How to make a RTF styles-sheet with DSSSL?)

[Dave Pawson <DaveP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:45 11/03/2002 -0500, Ron Ross wrote:


> I'm glad to hear you would favor using the style objects. I understand
> for reasons you point out bellow, that constructing a stylesheet with
> word processing styles in mind would require particular attention to how
> the style expression is used. I think, both in the stylesheet and in the
> backend, once such a path is taken, it would have to govern nearly every
> facet of document formating to work, i.e., leave the least possible to
> default values and inheritance in the RTF (or other backend)
> interpreter.


Would it be possible to have a layered approach?
Some at the 'higher' level, of styles,
others passing direct to the lower level?

Then mix and match as needed?




> > One significant theoretical difficulty is that flow object
> > characteristics inherit hierarchically, while the prevailing
> > "inheritance" of word processing styles is linear. (That is, certain
> > characteristics of a paragraph in RTF are inherited from the preceding
> > paragraph if not explicitly set or reset.)
>
> I had forgotten about this dumb on/off mechanism for styles in word
> processing documents (it had come up ages ago in the Abiword list).
> Still, some things can be done with the "basedon" and "next" rtf-style
> properties.

If it was made clear what inheritance there is (maybe none)
then it wouldn't be a problem for that backend.



Regards DaveP



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