- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:08:15 +0000
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>, www-style@w3.org
I agree with much of what both Anton and Henri have written. Having very recently finished typesetting my annual Christmas letter, which has 13 floated images scattered across ten completely full A4 pages, I can personally attest to Anton's > In the end, it's very difficult to programatically > control page layout to that level of editorial demand; > with even the most sophisticated typesetting and page > layout software the human touch is required at the end > to fix issues (particularly with regard to the positioning > of traditional floats) and Henri's > [I]f you have to choose between wysiwyg and a rule-based > typesetter, a rule-based typesetter a better choice. Even the smallest change to the content tended to provoke one or more images into falling partly off the bottom of a page, and it is hard to imagine the complexity of a typesetting engine that could cope with the implicit constraint-based logic without any need for human intervention. Philip TAYLOR
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