Re: page-breaks when printing

Hi,

Amaya doesn't implement "page-break-before" yet.
The thotlib is able to do that, but we didn't find the time to
add the needed glue between the CSS parser to thotlib.

In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 07 Feb 2000 09:14:51 -0600."
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> Hi,
> 
> Does amaya's printing/postscript generating engine support
> "page-break-before" yet?  (is it planned?) (I'm somewhat inexperienced/
> ignorant about web concepts so sorry if this easy...)
> 
> I did try several thinks (included below) and searched the w3 web site
> and mail archives. I did not see anything specifically say amaya supports this.
> I did see a couple of "this is how you do it, but I don't know if any
> browsers support it..."
> 
> I'm running on Redhat 6.1 Linux. (I did check that netscape 4.7 does not
> support it.)  (Maybe someone knowns of an "html2ps" that supports controlling
> page-breaks)
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> Ron
> 
> Things I've tried with amaya:
> 
> In the html (various combinations of inclusion of):
> <head>
>  ...
>  <style> BR.page { page-break-before: always } </style>
>  <STYLE type="text/css" media="print"> H2 { page-break-before: always } 
> </STYLE>
>  <STYLE type="text/css" media="print"> H2 { page-break-before: 2 } </STYLE>
>  <STYLE type="text/css" media="print"> H2 { break-before: page } </STYLE>
>  ...
> </head>
> ...
> <br class=page>
> ...
> 
> 
> And in the stylesheet 
>  <link href="/home/ron/.amaya/amaya.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
> 
> H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 {
>    page-break-before: auto; /* the default */
>    page-break-inside: avoid; /* no page breaks inside... */
>    page-break-after: avoid; /* ... or after */
>    }
> H1, H2 {
>    page-break-before: always; /* begin new chapters; overrides previous rule */
>    }
> BR.page { page-break-before: always }
> 
> @media print {
>         H1, H2        { page-break-before: always }
>         BR.page { page-break-before: always }
>       }
> 
> 
> Could someone please help?
> Thanks,
> Ron
> 
> 
> 
> 

  Irene.

Received on Wednesday, 9 February 2000 07:14:29 UTC