Subject: Re: Draft table spec
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 09:41:42 CST
At 8:39 AM -0500 1/18/01, Jeffry Smith wrote:
>I'm a little lost here. I thought a section was like a <div> in HTML.
>Example: I have a part of a document that contains a bunch of wide tables,
>some images, and footnotes. I decide to print that part in landscape mode,
>with the rest of the document in portrait. That section would be a <section>.
The example is more accurate than the HTML comparison, but
yes. A section is an area of a document that uses a different layout
(number of columns, page size, etc.) than previous/following sections.
> Can sections nest?
I don't know about the current implementation, but I believe
that they should be able to, yes. Example, you start a section for
landscape mode, then inside of that is a section with a column change.
>In terms of what's in a cell (<td></td> wrapper), I believe as I proposed, it
>should be anything you want, including another document (don't know why you
>would want to, but I believe we don't want to constrain the actual contents of
>a cell).
You couldn't have a full document, since there can only be
one <abiword> (root) tag in a document and you shouldn't be able to
have sectional changes in a cell (ie. columns, page size change).
LDR
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