On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Alan G Isaac wrote: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:37:33 +0000 (GMT) F J Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > You haven't really answered my question, though. I completely agree that > > CSS support is useful and desired, but what I want to know is why you need > > CSS *import* specifically... do you just want style="..." attributes to be > > understood? or do you want style sheets imported as document styles > > (interesting idea)? or do you want embedded/external CSS style sheets to > > be parsed and applied to the document (not desired, IMHO)? > > > The last. > > Why is this not desirable? > If style sheets can be imported as document styles, > how would this be different from the last case > (although as an option)?
The difference is that in the third case styles become hard-coded to the text runs and changes to the external style sheet won't be honoured. If you don't care about subsequent re-export then that's fine, but... To be effective, we really need to import as much style information as possible into a set of document styles. This is, of course, easier to do with XHTML documents that AbiWord creates; the general case could prove to be very tough. Thanks for your explanation. What would be very useful for me is if you could provide me with some typical examples of style sheets. Regards, Frank Francis James Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] `Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. `Sapphire and Steel have been assigned...' ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
