Hi Murray, Well, even CSS 1 supports fine grained positioning (e.g. margins, padding, position and sizes in units like mm, etc.) I don't see a need for the format to support better positioning than that. Tab support can and probably should be supported at a higher level in a DTP tool and not necessarily in the used page layout format.
HTML/CSS can actually be used much like other popular dtp format, such as PDF. For example, there is a tool called Myrmidon that works much like PDFWriter, e.g. your "print" from your favorite DTP app and get a HTML document. Regards, em2 Solutions Michael Jansson > Michael Jansson says: > > > There are no technical reasons for why css/html4/xhtml can > not produce > every bit as high quality > > as any other page layout format. > > > Sadly this is currently far from the case. HTML/CSS even > including CSS3 > is far from a professional document publishing format. It doesn't even > have center/right/decimal tabs and tab leaders, which virtually all WP > systems have. The list of DTP omissions goes on and on. Defining their > own XMLs is the direction that WP systems are going in for > interchange. > XSLT can be used to translate between these XMLs to the > extent that the > features are translatable. XHTML/CSS is only used as a fallback for > browsers. > > Which isn't to say that XHTML/CSS isn't cool. It is. But > currently it's > a weak DTP format at best. > > Murray >
