Slight correction Simon.
2008/6/19 Simon Calderson <>:
> As another example, soft page breaks were put into ODF 1.1 (?) because it
> was judged relatively difficult for most apps to be good enough at laying
> out ODF that working out which content was on which page was basically
> impossible. As I understand it, though, if you can repaginate you can throw
> away the soft page breaks - the standard explicitly says you can change the
> layout, even if the content remains the same.
Page breaks were introduced at the request of the accessibility subcommittee.
Sighted people have a habit of referring a reader to the top of page XXX.
Without (software accessible) page breaks, this isn't feasible for a
person reading the instance via audio.
They can be ignored when laid out, but on disk they are there.
At least there is some chance for a blind user to follow your arguments
by finding the right page?
regards
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Dave Pawson
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