RE: [CSS3 Paged Media] Page collapsing

Hi Allan,

> I am quiet sure at least the CSS 2.1 spec clearly states that
page-breaks collapses.

Well, I'm missing it if it's there...  (That, of course, wouldn't be a
first. ;-)  Could you point me to the pertinent text?

Best wishes,

Melinda
 

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From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On
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Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [CSS3 Paged Media] Page collapsing


On Thursday 14 September 2006 04:39, Grant, Melinda wrote:
>
> Different implementations behave differently, as might be expected.  
> It seems that most implementations collapse pages.  Notably Opera's 
> does not.  I propose that the spec be made explicit to require that 
> page-break properties collapse such that no empty pages or surfaces 
> are generated except for one when needed to get to the next right- or 
> left-facing page.  Authors can use other means to create blank pages.
> This would make printed results more interoperable.
>
I am quiet sure at least the CSS 2.1 spec clearly states that
page-breaks collapses. Page break are done in margins and the value of
page-break is calculated from combining the the page-break-before and
page-break-after values of the blocks that share that margin.

Note that is somethat hard to do, so it is likely there are bugs. I know
Konqueror probably makes multiple page-breaks in your case, or at least
did in my first implementation of page-break.

`Allan

Received on Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:41:21 UTC