- From: Douglas Rand <drand@sgi.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 17:17:52 -0400
- To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
I hope this isn't too negative... David Perrell wrote: > > I suggested counter properties in CSS such that every element has an > associated counter. By default, the counter has a value of 1 decimal, > but can be explicitly declared with any initial value and type. I think this would be a waste, and also not sufficient. It's a good solution for specifying how list items work. > .... > The DSSSL method strikes me as a more elegant solution than my last > insofar as my solution could require elements to be declared for the > sole purpose of counting other elements. A few questions, though: I don't like that either. It doesn't allow me to have a set of things which are numbered which don't relate to a flat section of the document tree. I'm sure I could do it by writing LISP code, but that doesn't seem elegant at all to me. What I'd like is a set of named counters and some sort of formatting language for combining these into output patterns. Something where I could type something human readable like: %chapter.%section Comments? Doug -- Doug Rand drand@sgi.com Silicon Graphics/Silicon Desktop http://reality.sgi.com/drand Disclaimer: These are my views, SGI's views are in 3D
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