- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:25:12 -0400
- To: Patrick Goetz <pgoetz@mail.utexas.edu>
- Cc: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 05:03 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: > On 3/18/2015 9:49 PM, anon anon wrote: > > I understand w3 is moving towards CSS3, however, I am > > picking up legacy code that's not documented by a coworker, and I > > believe if I were to go through the same tutorial that the person > > went through, then it would help me too. > > > Is CSS3 going to address the chronic deficiencies of XSL-FO 1.1; > e.g. not being able to count elements on a physical page (e.g. in > order to set footnote labels properly)? Is this why the XSL-FO 2.0 > effort was abandoned? You don't need to count objects on a page to reset footnote numbering; rather, it's meant to be used declaratively. The XSL-FO 2 ework did add support for automatic numbering. Probably for CSS footnotes today you use counter-reset: footnote; in the @-rule for your page. We abandoned the work because no-one was showing up to meetings, or not enough people I should say - one, two or three people, compared to forty people at a CSS meeting. > For a tutorial introduction to XSL-FO, I highly recommend "XSL > Formatting Objects" by Doug Lovell. No free download, but I've read > all > English language XSL-FO books, and this is by far the best for > learning the language. If you read German, there's also "XSL-FO" by > Marco Skulschus and Marcus Wiederstein. > >
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