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Fortunately I am in a position where I am given free reign as to what to use and how as long as it works with possibly the least amount of effort. On the other hand I had to deal with maintaining FOSI stylesheets in past. If you're in the position to change this, avoid P-Is, or any approach that is too prescriptive (for example how will that row height look on a 3" smartphone screen?) Normally I would suggest that for 90% of the content use declarative markup such as para and let the stylesheet (be it CSS, XSL-FO etc) decide how to render it For the remaining 10% use an attribute such as rend and allow CSS properties in there for finer control. With that approach you get a lot of stuff for free - ie. CSS properties work out of the box in browsers, but some things may still be impossible - for example pixel-perfect positioning of text (use image instead) and that is fine - the manual's recipient wont care or appreciate such details. Lech
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