[M Paul]

I'm just about to go on line with my first web page--over 200 pages (8.5x11) of articles. However, I can't find anything in the books I have (mostly Sams and O'Reilly) on setting the print styles for widows, orphans, hyphenation, line breaks, or spacing after a paragraph. I thought, the widows and orphans had a default setting--but I printed some samples and it wasn't so. Could someone tell me how to code them. And, can I even set hyphenation?? If not, then should I justify the right margin. Without hyphenation, justified might be hard to read in printed copy. Maybe, I should just look at the print reviews in a browser, and set line breaks where I see the widows, but I don't know how to do that. In DTP, I always set spacing between paragraphs at one half line space, but I don't think I can do that with CSS--does someone know???

Thank you to anyone who might respond.

Paul

[Stickman]

Not completely sure what you want...

If you understand css, use a print stylesheet:
http://www.tufts.edu/webcentral/tutorials/printcss/

[Brown]

Originally Posted by M Paul

In DTP, I always set spacing between paragraphs at one half line space, but I don't think I can do that with CSS--does someone know???

not sure what you're after but you can control paragraphs:

p {margin: 0 0 10px 0;}

don't try and covert all you know about print to the web. that'd be like using your knowledge of tv production to produce a radio show. different format.

[M Paul]

Originally Posted by Brown

not sure what you're after but you can control paragraphs:
p {margin: 0 0 10px 0;}
don't try and covert all you know about print to the web. that'd be like using your knowledge of tv production to produce a radio show. different format.

That is so funny. I spent all of December learning CSS and HTML, and the last four months coding this web site, meaning always adusting the bottom margins, and now in trying to do the print styles, I can't figure out it's a bottom margin adjustment. But, my mind went back to DTP. Minds are tricky things, you know.

Thank you.

I know I can't make the web into DTP, but I am amazed just how close I have come with just about everything I wanted. Really--I never would have dreamed.( I mean for how it looks on the browsers; who knows about what will happen when I go on line). Except of course with Print Styles. Hmm-now I have to make an exception--or so it seems for now. You can't always get what you want--or so the song goes.

Paul

[M Paul]

Originally Posted by Stickman

Not completely sure what you want...
If you understand css, use a print stylesheet:
http://www.tufts.edu/webcentral/tutorials/printcss/

Well what I want to know is, whether there something I can set on my print style sheet to control widows and orphans, and to set hyphenation. I'm using CSS and HTML. Something like {widows: 2lines;} or {hyphenation: .45;}

Thank you.

Paul

[Brown]

haha. fucking print monkeys.

no.

[M Paul]

Originally Posted by Brown

haha. fucking print monkeys.

no.

I think being terse in expression is often commendable for internet publishing---but, not always. Well, the browsers I test with have a print option, so why not monkey around with it???

Paul

[pgo]

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/page.html