- From: Greg Kostello <greg_kostello@digitalstyle.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:50:58 -0700
- To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- CC: www-style@w3.org, Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
David Perrell wrote: > Hakon Lie wrote: > > A new W3C Working Draft, CSS Printing Extensions, has been > released > > for review by W3C members and other interested parties... [1]. > Comments from > > non-members should be sent to www-style@w3.org. > > The page break properties need another value: 'never'. > > A common use for this value would be for heads and subheads to be > specified with 'page-break-after: never', thus keeping the > head/subhead > with the following paragraph of text and avoiding orphaned > heads/subheads at the bottom of pages. > > There are two notes in the draft regarding the suppression of page > breaks before and after stating "the syntax is not yet defined." Is > there a word more syntactically consistent with 'always' than > 'never'? > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-print > > David Perrell While at first blush, the "page-break-after: never" seems like an obvious extension, I would suggest a different, widely accepted stylistic attribute: "keep-with-next" and "keep-with-previous". These give you the same functionallity needed for the 'page-break-after: never', as well keeping headlines together in a multi-column layout. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Kostello mailto://kostello@digitalstyle.com DigitalStyle Corporation http://www.digitalstyle.com/ 10875 Rancho Bernardo Road, Suite 110 voice: (619) 618-2222 San Diego, CA 92127 fax: (619) 673-5054 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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