Subject: Re: Venting From: Marcus Carr <mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 08:43:24 +1100 |
Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Now there might well be alternate terminology and methodlogy that > could be > used to express marginalia that would better fit a Web design > paradigm, but > why should the print designer be forced to fit into our shoes. It also > > warrant keeping in mind that when one considers the amount of books > and > magazine published, print design represents a very large market whos > needs > should not be ignored. I think that part of the problem is that typesetting has always provided a much richer set of typographic controls than we expect from the web, so the ideal of automatic processing to print will in some cases never be achievable. Information such as the kerning of lines is aesthetically based and application dependent, so can't be stored in the XML anyway. Granted, it's unlikely (for now...) that anyone will store fully formatted advertisements as XML, but if you work forward from there toward more traditional layout (a novel, for example), at some point you will encounter a class of documents that benefit from XML but require complex formatting. I assume that these are the documents that concern you, but I suspect that the best support they'll get is storage in XML and final formatting in an application. If the designer is truly particular, that is probably what they want anyway. -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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