- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 00:48:14 +0200 (MET)
- To: Rob McDougall <rmcdouga@jetform.com>, "'www-style@w3.org '" <www-style@w3.org>
On Jul 23, 6:33pm, Rob McDougall wrote: > I have one quick question/comment about this document. With respect to > page break properties, the possible values include left/right. Why were > these chosen over front/back? My feeling is that left/right is a little > ambiguous while front/back is a bit more intuitive and less ambiguous. > > I expect that some thought went into the wording, so I was interested in > what the reasoning behind this decision was. The front page might be a left page or a right page, depending on writing direction. However a left page is always a left page, and has the binding on it's right edge, regardless of language. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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