- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:23:47 -0700
- To: Ishii Koji <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 08/27/2010 10:04 PM, Ishii Koji wrote: > > Yes. Usually, chapters start on right pages in left-binding books, right? In > the right-binding books, chapters start on left pages. That is why MS Word > has an option to page break to even/odd for sections. > ... > I agree with you on that stylesheets will be modified and optimized per books > or per publishers. But "page break on new chapter" is a very common pattern > that I think it's worth to try to abstract. I wish it be a logical intention > rather than physical specification. Ok, so based on your arguments I can see a use case for even/odd values for page-break, though not really for selectors in the @page rule. However, I don't think even/odd is a good name for the values, because authors can manipulate the page numbering. We could call it front/back or verso/recto (I forget which is which), which would not imply any interaction with page numbering. > Actually, as I write this, I noticed that the spec could be difficult to > implement. There's no property to specify bindings in current CSS as far > as I know, right? Then, how could browsers know which page is left and > right? Browsers know the page number, so they can distinguish even and > odd pages. But without binding information, you can't map pages to left > and right, can you? See http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/#progression ~fantasai
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