On 10/10/2012 02:29 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote: > On 10/10/2012 9:52 AM, fantasai wrote: >> On 10/04/2012 01:22 AM, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote: >>> Just an additional datapoint in this discussion: >>> >>> I just noticed that CSS already has properties page-break-before and page-break-after (see >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html#page-break-props). Rather obviously, these indicate the same directions as the -before and >>> -after relative direction properties already in XSL-FO, but are orthogonal to the :before and :after pseudo-elements. >>> >>> These seem not to have caused any significant confusion up to now. >> >> Because there is only one axis involved. Imho the main problem isn't >> ::before and ::after, but the fact that, given the set of terms >> >> start, before, end, after >> >> it's not clear, without memorizing it beforehand, which set belongs >> to which axis. > > Why does each axis have to have its own term? > > In a graph, both the x and y axis use "positive" and "negative"... Because when you are discussing four edges of a box, you need four terms to disambiguate. Even "positive" and "negative" are only unambiguous on a 2D coordinate system if you first narrow the context to one dimension. ~fantasaiReceived on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 22:55:30 UTC
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