- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:46:06 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Ludger Buenger wrote: > > This test suite implicitly assumes that there is an alowed page break opportunity between the box with the green border and the following ordered list. The result is supposed to look like the attached pdf "assumed-result.pdf" with a page break between the green bordered box and the ordered list. I agree that the implicit assumption is unsafe. > But I got utterly confused since it appears that page breaking behaviour in HTML seems not to be well defined (or at least I did not manage to figure it out). That's correct. Page breaking behaviour is presentational, so any reference to it in the HTML specification would be non-normative. Non-normative, presentational, hints in the HTML specification tend to be limited to online use, and mainly just GUI use. > Or is the rule -though not normative- justified and the test case should be adjusted to allow an explicit page break before lists? It is definitely justified as, in English, one typically has an introductory paragraph before a list, in some styles ending in ":". In good typography, that paragraph should finish on the same page as the list starts. PS Please don't type whole paragraphs on one line. Contrary to the behaviour implied by many GUI email clients, MIME text/plain does not have reflowable paragraphs; wrapping long lines should be treated as error recovery only. (When I used non-GUI tools to reply, it was easier to fix this than with Thunderbird.)
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