Elliott's right and in my "not quite recovered from 2 weeks off during the
holidays" stupor, forgot to change "simple printer" to "simple client" in
the 1st sentence.
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ElliottBradshaw at oaktech.com@pwg.org on 01/07/2003 02:36:06 PM
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Subject: RE: XP> Suggested rationale for the presentation module
Don said "simple client". I think he was allowing a client program to be
very naive about formatting, and using the presentation module as a
convenience. It seems that a complying printer has to implement the other
stuff regardless.
And, if I've understood it right, that logic makes sense to me.
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Oak Technology Imaging Group
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01/07/2003
02:20 PM
Don Wright wrote on Tue Jan 07 2003 - 09:10:30 EST
> Should we say anything about the Presentation Module allowing
> a simple client that doesn't support CSS to create simple
> font variants like bold, italic, etc.?
>
How about amending the text to be as follows?
"The Presentation module, section 5.4.1 of [XHTMLMOD] is supported since it
contains elements that are both structural and presentational, provides
the only method for specifying rules (the hr element), and allows very
simple
printers that might not support CSS to means for identifying font variants
such as bold and italic. This module contains the structural mark up
commands
for superscripts and subscripts that allow simple printers to identify and
format
these construct without CSS properties. Additionally, this module provides
common
presentational markup commands such as bold, italic, big text, small text,
and
teletype. Supporting this module allows a printer to render these common
elements
in a manner that appropriate for its capabilities."
Jim Bigelow,
Editor: XHTML-Print & CSS Print Profile
IEEE, Printer Working Group
http://www.pwg.org/xhtml-print
Hewlett-Packard
208-396-2068
jim.bigelow at hp.com