print page number /= current page number in Braille pagination.

to follow up on what Hakon Lie said:

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> Al Gilman writes:
> 
>  > I seem to remember two functions from Jason's discussion of Braille
>  > formatting traditions that are not covered in what you just said:
>  >
>  > Inclusion of print page number in running headers.
> 
> Right. My simple example in the last message didn't show all features.
> For the complete text, see [1]. Here's how you would do page numbers:
> 
>   @page :header {
>     content: none, "Page " decimal(pageno), none;
>  } 
> 
> The example would insert the string "Page 4" centered on the fourth
> page. The 'none' keywords indicate that there should be no running
> header on the left side of the page, nor the right side.
> 

I believe that would only get me the page number of the current
Braille page.  The person reading a text in Braille also wants to
know what page the same text is on in the print version.  The idea
is that this will be back-annotated into the HTML, but how you
know what value is the print-page-number is not standardized in
the HTML spec.  It will be a convention between the writer of the
HTML and the writer of the braille-medium stylesheet.  

A mechanism very much like the one you described in which one can
anoint "effective headers" through selector-driven rules should
be capable of handling this one.  

-- Al

Received on Thursday, 6 November 1997 14:19:37 UTC