On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:35:02 -0800 (PST)
scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit) said...
> Nothing personal, Nick, but that's a nonsensical argument! HTML
> was not designed to, and some few of us do not try to use it to,
> "engineer a document for display" on screen *or* paper. For a
> document that has only its structure encoded, the web browser
> doesn't have anything more to go on to make the on-screen
> decisions than it does to make the paper decisions. If you buy
> the "HTML encodes structure, not display" argument, then it's
> just as much the browser's job to figure out a decent paper
> representation as it is to figure out the screen representation.
Yes, but the problem is that current browsers just don't do that
figuring. Netscape will happily choose a font size, and then print the
document with its right hand side beyond some point chopped off. Opera
is a little better.
But the real problem is deciding when to split to the next page. If you
are lucky, it will avoid the worst of the widows and orphans problem
(though I am sure I have seen headers printed as the last line of a page
somewhere).
Ideally, there should be some means of giving "printing hints" in HTML,
but is there any official machanism to do this?
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