Re: [css3-gcpm] paged presentations, page floats, paged navigation between documents

On Oct 12, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote:
>> Also sprach Tab Atkins Jr.:
>>  > So, which direction of overflow becomes paged, the block or inline
>>  > axis? Or the horizontal or vertical axis? The fact that you used
>>  > large columns in your example implies that pages are always
>>  > generated from the overflow in the inline axis.
>> 
>> Think of it as printed paper sheets. Say, a document is printed onto
>> three sheets. Then you lay those sheets out onto the floor, either
>> along the x/horizontal axis, or the y/vertical axis.
>> 
>> The GCPM paged-* values don't specify how the content should be
>> printed onto those three sheets, but it specifies that (a) there
>> should be sheets and (b) which direction those sheets should be laid
>> out.
> 
> If it doesn't specify, then that's just confusing.  What happens if
> content overflows in both directions?
> 
> Paged Media currently always sends the block-axis overflow (or
> vertical-axis, I dunno which) to the next page.  Inline (/horizontal)
> overflow is hidden.  Presumably this should work the same.

Are you sure about that? I would expect a grid of pages, as when printing from Excel or Adobe Illustrator.