I appreciate this, but in my opinion, 2-column editing of a dual 
language document is not an aesthetic requirement. It's a usability one. 
It's not really the float that I'm after.


David Mundie wrote:

> Remember that XXE is intended for *authoring*, and for authoring the 
> tradeoff between aesthetics and performance is different. Other 
> editors that tried to use CSS for authoring failed because they tried 
> to implement too much of the CSS standard, and ended up bloated, slow, 
> and buggy. I think XMLMind's approach of implementing a subset of CSS 
> and staying lean and mean is the right one.
>
>  - dam
>
> On 2006-03 -13, at 8:38 AM, Benoit Maisonny wrote:
>
>> This is the ideal, but unfortunately not possible with XXE due to 
>> lack of support for float and width CSS properties. I wonder why 
>> XMLMind are not implementing this, as it seems many people would need it.
>>
>

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