Subject: RE: XSL-FO Does it have the guts? From: "Reynolds, Gregg" <greynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:47:35 -0500 |
Huh? Wouldn't that depend on the design of the stylesheet language? I have no trouble imagining a stylesheet language that supports the example you give. After all, DTP packages do store their data somehow, don't they? And I'm pretty sure that anything that can be expressed via directly embedding style codes can also be expressed indirectly. So why is it impossible for a DTP package to store its content in an xml file and its styling information in a stylesheet? -gregg -----Original Message----- From: Håkon Wium Lie [mailto:howcome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 4:26 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: XSL-FO Does it have the guts? Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > The only things I see that the > Quark-heads would likely miss are: > > 1. Non-rectangular areas > 2. Arbitrary rotation of areas > > Is there anything else one can imagine doing in Quark that isn't plausible > in XSL? Style sheets will never be able to rival DTP packages when the target is paper. Let me give you one example. Using DTP, you can align glyphs so that the top of one glyph just barely touches the bottom of the glyph in the line above. This is a quite common effect, e.g. on Microsoft packaging. In order to achieve the effect, you need to look into the shape of each glyph. Since the word "Microsoft" has no descenders in it, the design is different from what it would have been if the company was called "Opera". Style sheet languages don't let you query the shape of the glyphs and therefore do not allow you to express the kind of constraints the example calls for. If you have access to the fonts, you can tune your style sheet so that the letters happen to abut. This might work for you locally, but putting such style sheets on the Web will surprise users. If my copy of Helvetica happens to have more "internal leading" than yours, we will end up with different-looking documents. Which might not be too bad, but it's not something Quark users will put up with. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie http://www.operasoftware.com/people/howcome howcome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx simply a better browser XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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