FW: [css3-page] LCWD issue 31 -- RE: [css-page] New, last draft of CSS3 Paged Media Module

From: James Bigelow [mailto:jhb@jhb.boi.hp.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:44 PM
To: www-style@w3.org; ernestcline@mindspring.com
Subject: [css3-page] LCWD issue 31 -- RE: [css-page] New, last draft of CSS3
Paged Media Module


Thank you for your comment on the CSS3 Paged Media Module, archived in:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2003Dec/0128.html

Your issue, shown below, has been assigned the number 31.
> 
> 
> The terminology of this module strongly assumes the usual Western book 
> binding practice of binding a book so that when closed with the cover 
> facing the reader, the spine is to the left.  However, as I understand 
> it, the usual Japanese practice is to bind a book so that the spine is 
> to the right, when the cover faces the reader and thus the odd 
> numbered pages appear on the left and the even numbered pages appear 
> on the right.
> 
> Might it not be better to instead of speaking of left pages and right 
> pages to speak of odd pages and even pages?
> 
> Even if at this date work has progressed to the point that it is not 
> practical to replace :left and :right with :odd and :even, at the very 
> least, the explanatory text needs to be rewritten so that it is not so 
> strongly left spine oriented as it is now.
> 
> 

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   -- Jim Bigelow, Editor

Received on Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:02:02 UTC