Style Sheets

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


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

jenglish@crl.com
joe@trystero.art.com