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