- From: Charles Peyton Taylor <CTaylor@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 12:46:47 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
>>> Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> 07/02/96 08:47am >>> >At 08:52 AM 7/2/96 -0700, Gayle Kidder wrote: >>Exactly. Please tell me why one would want to use a style >sheet just to >>add some eccentric spacing to a poem or to control image >placement. > >A style sheet is _not_ appropriate for the eccentric >spacing of an eccentric poem. Neither is HTML. HTML cannot, >and will never be the perfect langauge everything anyone >wants to be. If such a language were possible, it would >have been invented years ago. But isn't it planned to add a "style' attribute to all HTML elements? so one could do this: <P style="margin=5em"> Oh, happy blue dog </p> <P style="margin=10em"> your ceasless wanderings inspire Painters</p> and probably a lot more. >PDF is perfect for a poem with eccentric layout needs and >supported in browsers on all major GUI platforms. > > Paul Prescod yeah, yeah, yeah. You're obviously not the person who is going to have to install all of those plugins. I'm a "tech support person" so I have a different perspective, and I'd prefer to only setup one peice of software. *ALSO*, have you ever offered both an HTML version of a document, and a PDF version? People almost always go for the HTML version. C h a r l e s P e y t o n T a y l o r ctaylor@nps.navy.mil The opinions and views expressed ## even though we're on our own, are my own and do not reflect ## we are never all alone, Those of the Naval PostGraduate School ## when we are singing, singing. http://vislab-www.nps.navy.mil/%7ectaylor/
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