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2.7 Styles (second paragraph following list)

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    Posted 11-06-2004 16:20
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    Subject: 2.7 Styles (second paragraph following list)


    Greetings,
    
    The second paragraph following the list reads:
    
    This type of style information differs from [CSS2] or [XSLT] style 
    sheets that are used to display a document. An additional style sheet 
    for CSS, XSLT, and so on, is required to display an Open Office document 
    on a certain device. This style sheet must take into account the styles 
    in the document as well as the requirements and capabilities of the 
    output device. The ideal case is that this style sheet depends on the 
    output device only.
    
    Comment:
    
    Let me walk through this one so someone may see where I have jumped the 
    track:
    
    "This type of style information differs from [CSS2] or [XSLT] style 
    sheets that are used to display a document."
    
    OK, that says that the information in the OpenOffice styles is different 
    from that of CSS2 or XSLT style sheets.
    
    "An additional style sheet for CSS, XSLT, and so on, is required to 
    display an Open Office document on a certain device."
    
    Err, I was expecting to hear about the difference mentioned in the first 
    sentence, but hear learn that an 'additional style sheet' is required 
    for CSS, XSLT?
    
    "This style sheet must take into account the styles in the document as 
    well as the requirements and capabilities of the output device."
    
    Ah, is it the intent of this paragraph to say that the style information 
    in Open Office styles does not include output device specific rendering 
    information that is required for rendering an Open Office document?
    
    If that is the case, then I would suggest:
    
    The style information in an Open Office document does not include output 
    device specific rendering information. Output device specific rendering 
    information must be supplied by the use of a CSS, XSLT or other style 
    sheet mechanisms. Any such style sheet must take into account the styles 
    in the document as well as the requirements and capabilities of the 
    output device.
    
    BTW, note that I deleted: "The ideal case is that this style sheet 
    depends on the output device only." As just stated, the style sheet has 
    to be aware of the style information in the document and so could never 
    be said to depend on the output device only.
    
    Hope everyone is having a great day!
    
    Patrick
    
    -- 
    Patrick Durusau
    Director of Research and Development
    Society of Biblical Literature
    Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
    Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
    Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
    
    Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
    
    
    


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