From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Dec 28 2002 - 17:53:55 EST
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:37:33 +0000 (GMT) F J Franklin <F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:
> > You haven't really answered my question, though. I completely agree that
> > CSS support is useful and desired, but what I want to know is why you need
> > CSS *import* specifically... do you just want style="..." attributes to be
> > understood? or do you want style sheets imported as document styles
> > (interesting idea)? or do you want embedded/external CSS style sheets to
> > be parsed and applied to the document (not desired, IMHO)?
>
>
> The last.
>
> Why is this not desirable?
> If style sheets can be imported as document styles,
> how would this be different from the last case
> (although as an option)?
The difference is that in the third case styles become hard-coded to the
text runs and changes to the external style sheet won't be honoured. If
you don't care about subsequent re-export then that's fine, but...
To be effective, we really need to import as much style information as
possible into a set of document styles. This is, of course, easier to do
with XHTML documents that AbiWord creates; the general case could prove to
be very tough.
Thanks for your explanation. What would be very useful for me is if you
could provide me with some typical examples of style sheets.
Regards, Frank
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
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