[geeks] Fw: [rescue] Re: [geekd] word processing myths (was: nuking from orbit)

[Ken Hansen]

Didn't know to reply to geeks... (reading mail backwards, latest first..)

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Hansen" <n2vip at yahoo.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: [geekd] word processing myths (was: nuking from
orbit)


> Pages are *outside* the HTML standard. Any support for such a thing would
> have to come from the "browser", and for that page information to be used
in
> the HTML document in question would almost certainly require
> custom/proprietary code.
>
> The very flexibility inherent in HTML documents & browsers is *a good
> thing*. To tinker with that I'd need a real good reason, and I can't think
> of one right now.
>
> How will you handle A4 vs US Letter size paper, for instance?
>
> To produce well defined output would require a less flexible browser -
think
> PDF...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods at weird.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>; "Sun Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:11 PM
> Subject: [rescue] Re: [geekd] word processing myths (was: nuking from
orbit)
>
>
> > [[ FOLLOWUP ONLY TO GEEKS!!!! ]]
> >
> > [ On Friday, August 31, 2001 at 14:46:58 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: nuking from orbit
> > >
> > > In HTML, how do you do things like page numbers, or prevent the URL
from
> > > being printed, or citations at the bottom of each page?  I've done a
few
> > > papers in HTML, but others where too demanding for it.
> >
> > Htmldoc-1.7 and Mozilla-0.9.3 both do nice page numbers when printing,
> > at least to PostScript....
> >
> > HTML can often be automatically converted into troff/TeX/lout too.
> >
> > --
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> >
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