Style Sheets

Joe English (joe@trystero.art.com)
Fri, 18 Nov 1994 15:07:44 PST 

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To: www-html@www0.cern.ch
Subject: Style Sheets
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 15:07:44 PST
From: Joe English <joe@trystero.art.com>


I've been working on a stylesheet proposal on and off for
several months now, and it's finally at the point where it's
ready to publish.

However, I'm probably going to abandon it now. There are
other works in progress -- particularly the DSSSL-Lite
proposal -- which look much better.

There might be some good ideas in there somewhere, so
I'm putting it on the Web anyway.  Hypertext and Postscript 
versions are available; see

    <URL:http://www.art.com/~joe/stylesheets/>

Here's an outline:

Sections marked (*) are still incomplete.
(Actually most sections are incomplete; the
ones with (*)s are _completely_ incomplete)

    Introduction
    Structure of stylesheets
    Properties
        Units of Measurement
        Fonts
            Font families
            Font sizes
            Font shapes
            Notes on font selection
            Open questions
        Special effects
        Colors
        Alignment and placement (*)
        Separator specifications
        Enumeration rules (*)
        Generated text (*)
    Specifiers
        Document-wide properties
        Phrases (*)
        Blocks (*)
        Paragraphs (*)
        Hyperlinks
        Lists (*)
        Inline Displays (*)
        Block Displays (*)
        Headings
        Metainfo
        Divisions
        Floating elements (*)
        Notes
    Determining style applicability
        Lookup based on Generic Identifiers
        Style inheritance
        Context-sensitive processing
            Style sets
            Context pattern matching
        Specifying styles in the document
        Notes on style qualifiers
    Linking Stylesheets to the Document
        Multiple style sheets
        User preferences (*)
    SGML definitions


--Joe English

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