- From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:56:25 -0800 (PST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Once upon a time Erik Aronesty shaped the electrons to say... >adding print specifications to the document. It is rediculous to respecify >margins and >paper settings for each document..or to allow the browser to break the page I think some of this belongs in style sheets. Except for the pagebreak, since that has to be in the content. Although, personally, I don't much care for style sheets and do like the direct approach of just putting it in the document so it is a portable entity in itself. ><PRINT LEFTMARGIN=x RIGHTMARGIN=x PAPER=x SCALE=x STYLE=x LANDSCAPE> >This region will use the above print settings and print style.... The problem I see with this is the large variety of printers. Some don't do landscape, some don't do graphics, etc. How deep a level of control would we want? Don't get me wrong, I like this concept, just detailing. ><PRINT PAGEBREAK> >This text will print on a new page THis is badly formed from my understanding, wouldn'g <PAGEBREAK> or <PAGEBR> be better? Similar to <BR>. I see this as another opening <PRINT> tag and I don't fell good about mixing behavior - some need closure and some don't. ></PRINT> >This region will use default formatting... > ><PRINT NOPRINT> >This region will not be printed, only seen I'm not convinced of this usefulness. ></PRINT> > ><PRINT NOREAD> > >This region will not be seen, but will be printed Nor this. Why would you want to do these two actions? I don't want my printer to start spewing stuff I didn't expect to print, and if I see something on screen I want to print I don't want to find the paragraph I wanted was deleted from the hardcopy, it would piss me off to say the least. -MZ -- Although I work for Livingston Enterprises Technical Support, I alone am responsible for everything contained herein. So don't waste my managers' time bitching to them if you don't like something I've said. Flame me. Phone: 800-458-9966 support@livingston.com <http://www.livingston.com/> FAX: 510-426-8951 6920 Koll Center Parkway #220, Pleasanton, CA 94566
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