On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:41:31 -0500, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Goal, develop documentation model that will easily port to SGML.
> Requirements, standard technical report type formatting, outline type
> formatting, with lots of tables.
>
> Sounds like standard html (table header, and column identifiers on top
> of each table). But there is a catch, the documents will be printed
> and on each printed page should appear the table header and column
> labels. Is there a css (media=print) tag that will put Table header and
> col identifiers on each page, like below? Any templates for this?
>
> // George
>
> ----------------------page break----------------------------
>
> 1.2.3 section
> 1.2.3.4 section
>
> Some text....
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
> | Table header |
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
> |col1 |col2 col3 |col4|col5|
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
> |yack |yack yack yack |:) |:( |
> | | | | |
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
> |yack |yack yack yack |aa | |
> | |yack yack |bb | |
> | | | | |
> | | | | |
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
>
> ----------------------page break----------------------------
>
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
> | Table header |
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
> |col1 |col2 col3 |col4|col5|
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
> |yack |yack yack yack |:) |:( |
> | | | | |
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
> |yack |yack yack yack |aa | |
> | |yack yack |bb | |
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
> |yack |yack yack yack |:) |:( |
> | | | | |
> +-------+--------------------------------------+----+----+
Seems to me that table headers that persist from one page to the next
were a standard feature of Unix "tbl" some twenty years ago. What
have we lost?
carl
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