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We are in the process of updating to TIA from SMA. Currently with SMA we have two stylesheets one for Editor and one for print. Is this common? What are the disadvantages if we only have one? Benefits of having two?
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Bryon
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Hi Bryon--
It all depends on what you mean by "having only one" stylesheet, vs. having separate stylesheets. If you mean "having only one", as in having a Styler stylesheet (or FOSI) that produces different output for screen (Editor) vs. print, then the question is mainly practical. In that case, here's how I see it:
Pros for one stylesheet:
Pros for two stylesheets:
If, on the other hand, by "having only one", you mean that the Editor view and print view would be the same, vs. having different editor and print styling, then things get a lot deeper. Here you get into philosophical territory, about the relative merits of WYSIWYG editing vs. task-specific styling. In this case, I come down on the side of task-specific styling: writing content is a fundamentally different task from reading it, so I think it makes sense to optimize the Editor view for the writing task, and to optimize the print format for the reading task. But there are plenty of people who feel that it's important to be able to see something that's a pretty close representation of the final product while you're producing it, so they lean toward making the Editor styling as similar to the final output (print) as possible.
A while back I had a blog post on this subject, but it has been taken down during some recent web site updates. I will see if I can get permission to repost it somewhere else, and link to it if possible.
--Clay
Hi Bryon--
It all depends on what you mean by "having only one" stylesheet, vs. having separate stylesheets. If you mean "having only one", as in having a Styler stylesheet (or FOSI) that produces different output for screen (Editor) vs. print, then the question is mainly practical. In that case, here's how I see it:
Pros for one stylesheet:
Pros for two stylesheets:
If, on the other hand, by "having only one", you mean that the Editor view and print view would be the same, vs. having different editor and print styling, then things get a lot deeper. Here you get into philosophical territory, about the relative merits of WYSIWYG editing vs. task-specific styling. In this case, I come down on the side of task-specific styling: writing content is a fundamentally different task from reading it, so I think it makes sense to optimize the Editor view for the writing task, and to optimize the print format for the reading task. But there are plenty of people who feel that it's important to be able to see something that's a pretty close representation of the final product while you're producing it, so they lean toward making the Editor styling as similar to the final output (print) as possible.
A while back I had a blog post on this subject, but it has been taken down during some recent web site updates. I will see if I can get permission to repost it somewhere else, and link to it if possible.
--Clay
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