Re: Draft table spec


Subject: Re: Draft table spec
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 18:33:22 CST


At 3:31 PM -0500 1/18/01, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> > The example is more accurate than the HTML comparison, but
>> yes. A section is an area of a document that uses a different layout
>> (number of columns, page size, etc.) than previous/following sections.
>
>Hm. Don't see how a table necessarily fits into this.

        Because a table is a different layout..

>Especially as we
>implement things like floating tables (or floating frames, the bottom part of
>my proposal), that allow the renderer to shift things around within
>constraints to fit the final document.

        I think it's going to be a while before we tackle floating
stuff - and you'd never have a floating table by itself anyway. It
would be a table inside of a frame (that might float).

LDR

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