- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:47:47 +0100
- To: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-ppl@w3.org
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 08:04 +0000, Dave Pawson wrote: > On 7 February 2013 22:01, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote: > I think the lack of feedback from the > > renderer is the main issue anyone coming from TeX or or a TeX-like > > system faces when looking at XSL-FO. > > IMHO the prime request is for this feature, yet it was hardly > discussed in the WG. We'd talked about it quite a bit e.g. in our Montreal F2F, but it was quite some time ago. The person who had gone off with an action item to write a proposal was one of the ones who wandered off altogether, unfortunately. > Given an 'if' or a 'choose' element in the vocabulary, > what conditions would you want to test, using feedback from the layout engine? > > e.g. if 'pagebreak-due' to test if the next block would require to be broken. > > What conditions would you like to test? Making one object the same width or height as another, asking whether a piece of text (as) fits in a given space so as to give alternate content (which we did discuss), and accessing font metrics for positioning all come to mind. Best, Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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