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At 9:14 AM -0500 1/24/03, Norman Walsh wrote: >- - Provide hints for line numbering of verbatim environments What hints? Start number? If so, couldn't this be better handled by an attribute? It seems like a fairly fundamental aspect of a verbatim environment? >- - Control the style of function synopses (K&R or ANSI) That feels like a stylesheet parameter to me, or maybe the funcsynopsis element should have a language attribute that allowed you to select ANSI C, K&R C, Java, C++, Objective C, etc. >- - Control presentation of some lists as blocks or tables >- - Specify rotation for table cells >- - Specify background color for table cells All three of these could be controlled by stylesheet options or separate stylesheets for separate effects. I'm not sure that would be convenient enough but it could be done. It seems to me that this mixes presentation with content. Putting the presentation info into processing instructions instead of attributes really doesn't change that. But maybe you do need to do this. I'm not sure. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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