- From: William M. Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:51:22 -0800
- To: Steve Knoblock <knoblock@worldnet.att.net>
- Cc: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak), www-style@w3.org
Steve Knoblock writes: >John, > [...] >I have to admit the DSSSL model is intriguing. The samples posted here have >been quite interesting. > >>* Generate a table of contents at this spot. > >>These aren't contrived or artificial examples; they're dirt-normal >>commercial publishing. Without programming, you can't handle even the >>last one. > >I agree they are real tasks in publishing. But should they be generated as >they are rendered or as they are authored? Should a style language be >generating or manipulating content? Perhaps. Consider a browser that could generate a table of contents or 'condensed' view automatically, whether the author explicitly created one or not. You could have a 'summarize' button on your toolbar that would pop up a new view that would have only the 'important' parts of the document showing (where 'important' could be customized), or if the author provided it, a section of the document tagged as a 'summary' that isn't shown normally. Anyway, combine this with figure/chapter/etc renumbering, automatic generation of lists of figures / tables, and indices, and you have a big win. You don't _have_ to use MS-Word or another DTP program to do things like this. -Bill P.
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