On Friday 16 March 2007 00:51:20 Gregory Pittman wrote: > Steve Herrick wrote: > > On 3/15/07, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > >> I think there is a decided asymmetry of content. Something like the > >> relationship between TIFF and JPEG. HTML is an imprecise, relative > >> format that adjusts to its environment, while Scribus defines a strict > >> environment, with high precision. So going from Scribus to HTML is > >> feasible, though certainly requiring some significant work. Going from > >> HTML to Scribus creates many problems, just like going from JPEG to TIFF > >> would. > > > > I'm not clear why this would be, if you actually treat HTML as the > > markup language it is, and didn't try to use it for layout. HTML was > > only ever meant to give a document structure, not design -- that's > > what CSS is for. Scribus should have no difficulty with structured > > documents. > > the question is, is CSS the best tool for this? One could certainly > envision a format, and we've long awaited a more XML-compliant format
1.3.4's format is basically compliant now. The control chars are gone. Craig
