Do you really think that CSS starting to catch up. I hope you are indeed right that we can expect improvements in the CSS support for print and for paged media in general over the coming months and years barefootliam.
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This might seem like a silly question, but it is actually a serious one. What if I wanted to publish looseleaf supplements to existing publications? That is, updated page groups to replace pages in existing printed books. (The books are in something like a three-ring binder, so pages can easily be replaced.)
Some of the unusual things I’d want to do would be:
specify arbitrary page breaks (but only temporarily—for printing purposes)
override automatic list numbering (because what if my updated page starts with list item 32?)
have the ability to do plenty of manipulation with page numbers (if I’m putting in more pages than I took out, I’ll be making “point pages.”)
“scrape” information from headings, manipulate it, and show it in dictionary-style guide heads/ears, as with Word’s “StyleRef” when used inside a field in a page header
… So, for anyone in the know… can XHTML with CSS3 do any or all of these things?
I’m looking in the direction of PrinceXML. Am I likely to find what I need?
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Do you really think that CSS starting to catch up. I hope you are indeed right that we can expect improvements in the CSS support for print and for paged media in general over the coming months and years barefootliam.
TellMeMore
This might seem like a silly question, but it is actually a serious one. What if I wanted to publish looseleaf supplements to existing publications? That is, updated page groups to replace pages in existing printed books. (The books are in something like a three-ring binder, so pages can easily be replaced.)
Some of the unusual things I’d want to do would be:
… So, for anyone in the know… can XHTML with CSS3 do any or all of these things?
I’m looking in the direction of PrinceXML. Am I likely to find what I need?
Thanks!