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Having read the comments, it appears to me that the main objections to using CSS come in two flavors: A desire to simplify packaging and a desire to closely control the presentation. As for the packaging, I will demur. As for the presentation, let me state the following for general consideration: among the open-source browsers, it is becoming more common to allow for a user stylesheet which is, by default, applied at the end of the CSS chain to every page visited. In this way, a user may customize things in a standard way, and the stylesheet used may be so used by each browser. Case in point: I have a single stylesheet that is used by Mozilla, Konqueror and Galeon; I need only edit this one file to make those changes available to each browser. If the stylesheets use CSS, it would allow a user to be able to view docs in their style. It would, correspondingly, take away presentational control from the author. My view: HTML and pretty, author-controlled formatting just don't go together. If I, as an author, wish to distribute a doc that I know will be viewed as I want it, then I'll generate PDF. -- Matt Meola AFØD http://www.qsl.net/af0d/index.html
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