Re: How to keep paragraphs or table rows together
Guenter Milde via Docutils-users <[email protected]>
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On 2018-08-30, R. Diez via Docutils-users wrote: >> as this, keeping paragraphs and tables together, is a layout >> problem and therefore is depending on the output format, >> it actually is nothing docutils, or AsciiDoc could or should do. >> [...] > I do not understand this point of view. This is a basic feature. > Without it, documents look unprofessional. It ist, however, a basic *layout* feature for page-based layouts. > Even CSS, arguably designed primarily for screen usage, offers more > control. See "page-break-inside: avoid", which you can add inside HTML. CSS is a layout description language. You can use CSS with Docutils to style the output accordingly. > When the browser renders the page on the screen, it ignores it. When it > prints it, or generates PDFs, it honours it. And that is independent of > the output format. > docutils or AsciiDoc should offer some sort of standard mark-up for > this. Even if it is in a subset considered "simple layout". The > distinction between plain information and layout gets a little blurry > at this point. One could think of "keep together" as a kind of "these > elements are semantically closer". There are several ways to convey the semantic of "keep together" in reStructuredText. It depends on your special need to find out which is best suited. > The whole point of such markup languages is that you have a single > source for many different output formats. However, PDF documents and > e-book readers have pages, and still are very popular output formats. > If you need to use different tags depending on the output format for > such simple matters, the promise of output format independence breaks. Indeed. However, you still need different stylesheets for the conversion of the semantic information in the rST source into a layout in, e.g. LaTeX-generated PDF or HTML for an ebook reader. Sincerely, Günter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Docutils-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/docutils-users Please use "Reply All" to reply to the list.