pdf's of Acts

[David Hansen]

On 28 Nov 2002 at 17:45, Dave Howe wrote:

> a *lot* can be decided by the browser in the case of html - paragraph
> layout being the most obvious,

Not quite.

The browser will decide where a line of text is broken. That's good 
as it allows the browser to decide the best place to break a line. 
The layout of paragraphs is determined by the <P> command, amongst 
others.

> but font is another biggie - rendered
> in a completely different font, some characters could well remap where
> the original author didn't expect them to.... 

It is possible for someone to produce a font that has all the letters 
jumbled up. It's unlikely that this would turn, "make love not war", 
into "kill the Pope", though.

If the font sticks to the appropriate standards and the HTML 
correctly indicates the character set then there are no problems on a 
correctly set up computers. I do produce web pages in various 
languages, including Japanese, so I have some experience of this.

> and of course html has no concept of pages

Thank goodness. 

Page numbers are entirely redundant in documents that have numbered 
paragraphs.



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