Re: CSS3: Page headers/footers, auto-TOCs.

Redarding this note by David Wheeler:

> If these capabilities don't exist, please consider them for CSS3.
> I'd like to be able to use CSS to describe basic, ordinary documents
> that can be printed, and without these capabilities that seems unlikely.

let me say that HTML+CSSn could be a quick and effective way to make
technical documents that can be published both on paper and on CD-ROM, that
is an affordable and maneagable way to make single-source documentation.

This could be a huge and hot market for this technology and for the software
products that support it.

Like most technical documentation department, we would be happy to evaluate
HTML+CSS systems instead or beside the far more powerful and complicated
SGML/XML+DSSSL/FOSI ones.

Of coursee, we would need the support for page numbers, headers&footers,
auto ToC generation, page size and margins, transparencies and so on to use
HTML+CSS for this task.

I hope that the CSS committee will keep in mind these facts while working at
the next CSS specifications.

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Alessandro Bottoni ( bottoni@cadlab.it )
Technical Writer
Cad.Lab Inc (www.cadlab.com )
Cad.Lab SPA (www.cadlab.it)
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Received on Thursday, 18 June 1998 05:28:37 UTC