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[Steve Schafer] >>I think that one of the main points about the dsssl/xsl-fo kind of >>abstraction is that it allows a formatter neutral specification of >>style. If you were to enforce things down to the level of line breaking >>then essentially you would only ever have one formatter available. > >Doesn't that go hand-in-hand with the idea of portability? No, portability means that if a European designer makes a stylesheet that looks good on his A4 printer, I should be able to handle it on my US letter printer without anything running off the edge. I should also be able to look at it on screen without having to scroll back and forth, like I do with Acrobat. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Solutions Architect Exemplary Technologies One Embarcadero Center, Ste. 2405 San Francisco, CA 94111 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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