- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 15:55:11 +0200
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Also sprach Philip Taylor (Webmaster):
> > and there are more HTML-based email authors than Web page
> > authors, it's used to design and print books,
>
> I known that Hakon Wium Lie & Bert Bos recently produced a
> book using HTML, but I wonder how many more books have
> been produced using technology that still only barely
> addresses the real needs of high-quality book design and
> typesetting.
The challenge when writing a book in HTML is not HTML; the elements in
HTML are well-suited for books, and the CLASS attributes fills in the
gaps [1]. The challenge lies in formatting the HTML into a PDF that
can be sent to the printer. In the past, CSS has not addressed the
needs of paper-based publishing, but this has changed. Three CSS3
modules address these issues [2][3][4] and Prince [5] lets you try
them out. I'll be speaking on this issue at XTech [6].
[1] http://alistapart.com/articles/boom
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-gcpm
[5] http://www.princexml.com
[6] http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/166
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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