On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:41:31AM -0500, George Georgalis 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
If this is a long-term investment, then XML sounds like a better fit. Define your own conceptual grammar for the content, and then develop a "library" of xslt that gets you the flavor of output you want. (XSL-FO to get you pdf's... and xsl-fo has the built-in concepts of headers, footers, and keeping things tidy across page breaks). A much less complicated xslt translation can get you web pages. But that's not a solution that you'll have by the end of the week. But if you manage your content with a not-complicated xml grammar, and leave the formatting to various xslt translations, you've left yourself a lot of flexibility. And the guts could be written in $FAVORITE_LANGUAGE. B -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
