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Re: Stylesheet languages and giving you fine controlover where things go
- To: rsharpe at ns dot aus dot com
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Stylesheet languages and giving you fine controlover where things go
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 16:46:43 +0100
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
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Richard Sharpe writes:
> For example, I might want to place the word Preliminary diagonally
> across the back of every page in outline form, with the primary text
> appearing in front of it.
I dont regard that as part of styleheets. its more like cropmarks -
you would add them to a stylesheet, would you?
> In some cases, I also want to be able to take a block of text and center
> it, vertically, on a page. I don't seem to be able to do that with
> DSSSL. Don't know about XSL(T).
trivial in XSL.... just set space-before and space-after to small
minima and large maxima
> For example, I want to have text on one side of the header aligning with
> the bottom of a graphic on the other side. Indeed, the decision in DSSSL
> to divide the header up into three regions seems to have been a mistake.
> I would rather that it be one area that I can decide how to format.
use XSL....
> I would also like to be able to insert text at any angle I want to.
use XSL
> What stylesheet languages give me these?
XSL does
I dont say that the _implementations_ do....
sebastian