>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?
>
Yes, it's called "CSS2". You construct a stylesheet based on a "sheet" or
media, and apply that stylesheet dynamically to your (relatively unchanged)
content. This is how many of those "click here for a printable view" pages
work.
There's also XML, but that way has been known to lead only to madness.
jdv
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