[rescue] Re: [geekd] word processing myths (was: nuking from orbit)

[Ken Hansen]

Pages are *outside* the HTML standard. Any support for such a thing would
have to come from the "browser", and for that page information to be used in
the HTML document in question would almost certainly require
custom/proprietary code.

The very flexibility inherent in HTML documents & browsers is *a good
thing*. To tinker with that I'd need a real good reason, and I can't think
of one right now.

How will you handle A4 vs US Letter size paper, for instance?

To produce well defined output would require a less flexible browser - think
PDF...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods at weird.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: [rescue] Re: [geekd] word processing myths (was: nuking from orbit)


> [[ FOLLOWUP ONLY TO GEEKS!!!! ]]
>
> [ On Friday, August 31, 2001 at 14:46:58 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: nuking from orbit
> >
> > In HTML, how do you do things like page numbers, or prevent the URL from
> > being printed, or citations at the bottom of each page?  I've done a few
> > papers in HTML, but others where too demanding for it.
>
> Htmldoc-1.7 and Mozilla-0.9.3 both do nice page numbers when printing,
> at least to PostScript....
>
> HTML can often be automatically converted into troff/TeX/lout too.
>
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