Re: XP> [CSS3 Paged Media] Page collapsing

From: Michael Sweet (mike@easysw.com)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 20:21:34 EDT

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    Atsushi Nakamura wrote:
    > Melinda,
    >
    > This may be just a way of thinking, but
    > I don't think authors would unintentionally place consecutive page breaks,
    > but they will be intentional. Collapsing them would neglect author's intent
    >
    > Authors would likely place "just" page breaks
    > where they want page breaks to occur, since "page-break-after:always;"
    > has a function on it's own, and normally would not think it would require
    > some "magic".
    >
    > If other tags (or styles) behave he same way, this would be a different
    > story.
    > However, consecutive <br>s do not collapse, consecutive <p>s do not
    > collapse,
    > and styles do not collapse. Under this condition, the behavior proposed
    > seems strange.

    To be the "devil's advocate", CSS *does* collapse margins between
    elements, and you could consider page breaks as a special kind of
    margin/whitespace separator.

    So for two consecutive elements, the first with "page-break-after:
    always" and the second with "page-break-before: always", would
    result in a single page break, while other scenarios would result
    in two breaks, e.g.:

         before + before = 2 page breaks
         before + after = 2 page breaks
         after + before = 1 page break
         after + after = 2 page breaks 

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