Re: page control in HTML

• From: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
• Date: Wed, 31 May 95 09:49:57 PST
• To: www-html@www10.w3.org
• Message-Id: <19950531.776C640.9598@contessa.phone.net>

> Rather than ask for a new tag, take a page out of the C compiler's
> book and do something like this:

You know, I have no idea what C compiler uses comments for pagination
control.

However, the C standard has a place to hang commands that control
things outside the language - the "#pragma" directive. SGML has a
similar feature - the PI construct. It would turn:

>   <!--PAGE-->
>   <!--NOPAGE-->
>   <!--/NOPAGE-->

into:

	<?PAGE>
	<?NOPAGE>
	<?/NOPAGE>

SGML parsers should pass it through as a PI, where the application can
decide what to do with it. Even the most broken HTML parser should
ignore it as an unrecognized tag.

However, style sheets provide a much cleaner mechanism:

	<HR CLASS=PAGE>
	<DIV CLASS=NOPAGE>
	</DIV>

with an appropriate style sheet that causes the HR to output a page
break instead of ink when printed, and DIV to float to the top of the
next page if it doesn't fit on the current page.

	<mike

Received on Wednesday, 31 May 1995 13:17:54 UTC