Subject: RE: XSL-FO Does it have the guts? From: "Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 22:53:16 +0100 (BST) |
Håkon Wium Lie writes: > Actually, when looking at the Microsoft packaging again, it's slightly > more complex: > > "if there are no descenders in element (a) place element (b) on top > of (a) so that the topmost glyph in the part of element (b) which > is below any part of element (a) touches the baseline of element > (a), else..." > > This starts to get heiry and I havn't seen any style sheet language > which offers this sort of capabilities. dont put out challenges like that on a list read by TeXxies! i have no intention of trying, but i bet it could be expressed in a markup language, not just with Quark manual fiddling > likely changed. This is due to the fact that style sheets -- as we > know them today -- don't record the constraints the designer intended, > but instead just record positioning. these would be "Microsoft style sheets"? despite their patent, there are other systems, you know... Sebastian]"Ë?Ëb?ú?Ö«r¯zm§ÿðà ®?·«¯+^r(?ül?ül?X¬