- From: Chris Wilson (PSD) <cwilso@MICROSOFT.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:55:58 -0800
- To: "'Eric S. Raymond'" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, "'amas@lhr-sys.DHL.COM'" <amas@lhr-sys.DHL.COM>
- Cc: "'www-html@www10.w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
There is currently work being done under the auspices of the W3C to enable better printing control for HTML, including page-breaks. It is being proposed as a set of stylesheet constructs, not as HTML tags. -Chris Chris Wilson cwilso@microsoft.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Eric S. Raymond [SMTP:esr@snark.thyrsus.com] >Sent: Thursday, December 19, 1996 9:14 AM >To: amas@lhr-sys.DHL.COM >Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org >Subject: Re: Proposal: New Page Tag > >> What I am suggesting is a tag that would signal the preferred position of >> a new page, maybe something like <NP>. This would be a special tag and act >> very much like the 'page-break' ascii character found in the RFC ascii >> written documents. This tag would not be used for display purposes, though >> would come into action when someone decided to print an HTML document. >> >> This is a tag I would like to see because I have seen documents that have >> been semi-converted to HTML and they look all wrong when I print them. > >I suggested this, as <PAGE>, about a year ago, along with a general >interpretation that extended to audio media etc. I still think it's a good >idea. >-- > <a href="http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html">Eric S. Raymond</a> >
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