- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:56:47 -0500
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, Dave Cramer <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:05:15 +0100 Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote: > Liam R E Quin wrote: > > > > I've been giving some attention named strings in the latest GCPM > > > draft [1]. I have some issues and comments. I'll start with the > > > things I think are problems, and then I'll propose how I'd like > > > to see it improve. > > > > Brad, agree 100% that string-set is sucky. There are several > > problems I see, one of which is that we're supposed to be > > declarative and assignment sounds awfully procedural > > It's slightly more subtle. 'string-set' isn't procedural, like in > "assign this value to that variable". Rather, it declares that certain > elements (those selected) influence a certain named string. Later, the > named string can be referred to, but each names string can take on > several values depending on where the assignment took place. Yes (I understand how it works, was commenting on the name itself and how it sounds). Sorry if I wasn't clear. > [...] Have you seen running elements?: Yes (and referred to it, although not by name). But it requires additional markup. > > > 003-14 14.2.1 The Section Title Here [ short form of current lemma title ] > > > > where the chapter number is 2 digits, there's a fixed hyphen before > > the page number, and the running header contains MathML (or > > Japanese Ruby)... > > I'm not sure I understand what you mean with "two digits" above, The leading zero. > > Basing content flows on the spec that defines content flows > > (regions) seems on the face of it very sensible and I agree we > > should explore it. > > I can never be against explorations. But it also seems wise to try out > existing specs and implementations before heading out anew. Yes - I've been using AntennaHouse Formatter, PrinceXML (thank you) and PDFReactor, and even weasyprint. I know that Dave Cramer in this thread has also been using the features we're duscussing very heavily. -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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