The GELLMU Examples Archive
<abbr>GELLMU</abbr> and <abbr>CSS</abbr>
with a Gratuitous ASCII Chart
in a Footnote
William F. Hammond
30 April 2002
At this point the author is evaluating the usefulness for the
GELLMU Project of using Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) to provide crude renderings of the XML version of
the projects article document type
One point involves the placement of verbatim text, such as an
ASCII
ASCIICHART
0123456789ABCDEF
0
1
2
30123456789;
4ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
5PQRSTUVWXYZ
6abcdefghijklmno
7pqrstuvwxyz
chart in a footnote
Various versions of this document are available:
Note that the XML version is an instance of the GELLMU
article document type, which means that from the
viewpoint of a web browser its vocabulary is completely unknown
It contains a link to a CSS style sheet that serves to provide
a crude screen formatting
Note that CSS is presently rather
limited In particular, it does not provide a way to move a footnote
to the bottom, or, for that matter, to move anything
Note that there are no live anchors in the web rendering of the
XML version if only because
- CSS provides no way to do that
- the projects article document type presently does not
use XMLlevel anchors
The CSS renditon of the XML version works as
intended when viewed with Opera 6 on a Win32 platform
The author is not fully satisfied with the CSS handling of any
other web browser that he has tried to use
The screen PDF formatter for GELLMU has not yet been
completed Screen PDF will have live anchors and in many
respects be similar to the experimental PP4PDF formatter for PDF
incremental slides An example slideshow is available at
http:math.albany.edu:8000mathpershammondPresentug2001
,
and an anchor for the draft formatter will be found at the end of the
slide show