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| | Does Eddy's book include a list of what you can define in DSSSL?
| | I can do a basic style sheet with what I have, but I would like
| | to do something more exact.
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| Yes, it "summarizes its characteristics" and it's quite lengthy. It has a
| table that is fairly long, in the following format:
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| If You Want To:
| -ignore a record-end
| ...
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| Use This Characteristic
| ignore-record-end?
| ...
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| Characteristic description sections are along the lines of these commands:
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| box-type
| glyph-reorder-method
| input-tab?
| left-margin
| ligature? (allow ligatures)
| min-post-line-spacing (minimum line spacing after)
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| I think this is the kind of stuff you're looking for.
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| Jane
