Re: Style Sheets for HTML

gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)

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Subject: Re: Style Sheets for HTML
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>Postscript is functionally a write-only medium.  Once a document has been 
>instantiated in Postscript, little further interpretation is possible 
>without a full Postscript interpreter.  

The same argument could be made against HTML to a degree. By
down-converting into HTML, you lose information in much the
same way. HTML documents are generally not as structured as they
could be...