Thursday, December 3, 2015

Declarative Index Proposal for Printing with CSS

This proposal is about formatting an index with HTML and CSS. It’s something you can’t do today in a standard, cross-implementation way.

The part you can’t do today is getting the lists of page numbers right. The same problem occurs in an index and in cross references. There are vendor extensions to do it, but they are not compatible, so it’s a good candidate for standardization.

A back of the book index looks like this:


GEGL Plug-Ins for GIMP. Part Three: Writing C Plug-Ins

GEGL Plug-Ins for GIMP. Part Three: Writing C Plug-Ins This i s the third in a series of articles about GEGL plug-ins for the GIMP image ed...