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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Don’t forget that using XHTML and CSS for printing started within the PWG as 5101.2-2003 and 5102.2-2003, respectively.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">________________________________________________________</p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tr><td width="190" valign="top" style="width:142.8pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><br> <img width="176" height="88" style="width:1.8333in;height:.9166in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D9E712.209280C0"></p></td><td width="270" valign="top" style="width:202.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><br><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Don Wright, President</span></b><br>Standards Strategies, LLC<br>120 Goodlett Kilner Ct<br>Mt Washington, KY 40047<br><br><a href="mailto:don@standards-strategies.com">don@standards-strategies.com</a><br>+1 859-396-7812</p></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">IEEE Secretary</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Member, IEEE Board of Directors</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Chair, IEEE Governance Committee</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Chair, IEEE Eric Herz Staff Award Committee</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Member, IEEE Tellers Committee</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Member, IEEE Strategy and Alignment Committee</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Member, IEEE SA Standards Board</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Member, IEEE SA CAG</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Member, IEEE-ISTO Board of Directors </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Past President, IEEE Standards Association</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Past Chair, IEEE SA Standards Board</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Past Chair, INCITS Executive Board</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> ipp <<a href="mailto:ipp-bounces@pwg.org">ipp-bounces@pwg.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Tykodi via ipp<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 14, 2023 1:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ipp@pwg.org">ipp@pwg.org</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Paul Tykodi <<a href="mailto:ptykodi@tykodi.com">ptykodi@tykodi.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [IPP] FW: Question - CSS Working Group Activities & W3C Publishing Business Group Goals</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597">Hi IPP Mailing list,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597">This forwarded email thread has a little more content included than the thread Ira forwarded on Monday along with a note from him mentioning the content of the email thread had been discussed at last Monday’s SC meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597">The concept being discussed is that a document to be printed is purposefully built using HTML and the target for the document is a printer and not a web browser. I believe the following article has a good introduction to the idea: </span><a href="https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/designing-for-print-with-css/">https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/designing-for-print-with-css/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597">Best Regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597">/Paul</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">--</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Paul Tykodi<br>Principal Consultant<br>TCS - Tykodi Consulting Services LLC<br><br>Tel/Fax: 603-343-1820<br>Mobile: 603-866-0712<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:ptykodi@tykodi.com">ptykodi@tykodi.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">WWW: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.tykodi.com/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://www.tykodi.com</span></a></span><span style="color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">This e-mail reply and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Tykodi Consulting Services LLC </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">immediately by replying to this message and destroying all copies of this message </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">and any attachments. Thank you</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Paul Tykodi <<a href="mailto:ptykodi@tykodi.com">ptykodi@tykodi.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 6, 2023 8:33 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'PWG Steering Committee (restricted)' <<a href="mailto:sc@pwg.org">sc@pwg.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> FW: Question - CSS Working Group Activities & W3C Publishing Business Group Goals</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597">Hi Steering Committee,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597">FYI …</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597">Best Regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2f5597">/Paul</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">--</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Paul Tykodi<br>Principal Consultant<br>TCS - Tykodi Consulting Services LLC<br><br>Tel/Fax: 603-343-1820<br>Mobile: 603-866-0712<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:ptykodi@tykodi.com">ptykodi@tykodi.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">WWW: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.tykodi.com/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://www.tykodi.com</span></a></span><span style="color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">This e-mail reply and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Tykodi Consulting Services LLC </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">immediately by replying to this message and destroying all copies of this message </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546a">and any attachments. Thank you</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Schindler Wolfgang Dr. <<a href="mailto:w.schindler@pons.de">w.schindler@pons.de</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 6, 2023 6:39 AM<br><b>To:</b> Laurent Le Meur <<a href="mailto:laurent@edrlab.org">laurent@edrlab.org</a>>; Cristina Mussinelli - Fondazione LIA <<a href="mailto:cristina.mussinelli@fondazionelia.org">cristina.mussinelli@fondazionelia.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Ivan Herman <<a href="mailto:ivan@w3.org">ivan@w3.org</a>>; Liisa McCloy-Kelley <<a href="mailto:LMcCloy-Kelley@randomhouse.com">LMcCloy-Kelley@randomhouse.com</a>>; "Daihei Shiohama (<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">塩濱大平</span>)" <<a href="mailto:shiohama@mediado.jp">shiohama@mediado.jp</a>>; W3C Publishing Steering Committee <<a href="mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org">public-publishing-sc@w3.org</a>>; <a href="mailto:ptykodi@tykodi.com">ptykodi@tykodi.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> AW: Question - CSS Working Group Activities & W3C Publishing Business Group Goals</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt">Dear Ivan, dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt">The ideal data format for single-source publishing is XML or (X)HTML. If you intend to produce printed products from these data and be independent from a vendor-specific tool, you might either use XSL-FO or Print CSS. There are commercial tools for either approach, e.g. from Antenna House, and for CSS there is also Prince or PDFreactor, but also open-source alternatives.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt">In my opinion, it makes a lot of sense to extend the coverage of paged media in CSS to be able to express all the features needed for high-quality print products in “pure” CSS. I know about books (e.g. Christin Götz: “Print CSS. Das CSS paged media Modul.: Grundlagen und Referenz”, ISBN: 978-3938529089) on that topic and I have seen printed books produced by using this approach. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt">Thus I would argue in favour of exploring this issue in more detail in W3C Publishing and if they agree, in the CSS WG, which would of course be the right place for this kind of work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt">Best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt">Wolfgang</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE"> Laurent Le Meur <<a href="mailto:laurent@edrlab.org">laurent@edrlab.org</a>> <br><b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 5. September 2023 17:59<br><b>An:</b> Cristina Mussinelli - Fondazione LIA <<a href="mailto:cristina.mussinelli@fondazionelia.org">cristina.mussinelli@fondazionelia.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Ivan Herman <<a href="mailto:ivan@w3.org">ivan@w3.org</a>>; Liisa McCloy-Kelley <<a href="mailto:LMcCloy-Kelley@randomhouse.com">LMcCloy-Kelley@randomhouse.com</a>>; "Daihei Shiohama (</span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">塩濱大平</span><span lang="DE">)" <<a href="mailto:shiohama@mediado.jp">shiohama@mediado.jp</a>>; W3C Publishing Steering Committee <<a href="mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org">public-publishing-sc@w3.org</a>>; <a href="mailto:ptykodi@tykodi.com">ptykodi@tykodi.com</a><br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: Question - CSS Working Group Activities & W3C Publishing Business Group Goals</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">As developers of reading apps, we are mostly interested in the improvement of CSS related to "synthetic" pagination, which is a subset of what needed for printing reflowable publications. </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">The CSS multi-columns we're using in Readium, and what most modern reading systems are using also (but some not) is cumbersome for many reasons. One among others is the problem of forcing page breaks in a multi-columned html page. </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">We've been dreaming about the availability CSS pages or CSS regions, we can even say that we came to the W3C for such evolutions, but alas... </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Maybe it's time to try again. </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Best regards</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Laurent</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="DE"> </span></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Le 4 sept. 2023 à 10:15, Cristina Mussinelli - Fondazione LIA <<a href="mailto:cristina.mussinelli@fondazionelia.org">cristina.mussinelli@fondazionelia.org</a>> a écrit :</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Dear Ivan</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Good morning and thank you very much for the information.<span lang="DE"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="DE"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The topic seems important to me for all those who have single-source-publishing flows: XML to PDF for printing or HTML to PDF for printing.<br><br>In Italy (and Europe) there are not many, but still it makes sense in my opinion.<br><br>Many companies that produce PDF files automatically (bills, airline tickets, contracts, etc.) use these technologies. It would be interesting to also address the issue of producing accessible PDFs from these technologies (XML, XHTML, CSS).<span lang="DE"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="DE"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">All my best<span lang="DE"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Cristina<span lang="DE"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="DE"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="DE"></span></p></div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt">Da:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt">Ivan Herman <<a href="mailto:ivan@w3.org">ivan@w3.org</a>><br><b>Data:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>lunedì 4 settembre 2023, 07:12<br><b>A:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Liisa McCloy-Kelley <<a href="mailto:LMcCloy-Kelley@randomhouse.com">LMcCloy-Kelley@randomhouse.com</a>>, Cristina Mussinelli - Fondazione LIA <<a href="mailto:cristina.mussinelli@fondazionelia.org">cristina.mussinelli@fondazionelia.org</a>>, Daihei Shiohama <<a href="mailto:shiohama@mediado.jp">shiohama@mediado.jp</a>><br><b>Cc:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"'PBG Steering Committee (Public)'" <<a href="mailto:public-publishing-sc@w3.org">public-publishing-sc@w3.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:ptykodi@tykodi.com">ptykodi@tykodi.com</a>><br><b>Oggetto:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Fwd: Question - CSS Working Group Activities & W3C Publishing Business Group Goals</span><span lang="DE"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Liisa, Christina, Daihei,</span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">please find, below, a mail I have just received from Paul Tykodi, from the IEEE Printer Working Group. I would think that exploring how far the Publishing Industry is interested by the development of CSS print would be of importance, and maybe it is a good idea for the PBG to organize some sort of a seminar/meeting, inviting the people from the PWG but also the chairs of the CSS WG. </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">We may also think about having a short discussion about it at TPAC next week.</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Cheers</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Ivan</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Begin forwarded message:</span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">From:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">"Paul Tykodi" <<a href="mailto:ptykodi@tykodi.com">ptykodi@tykodi.com</a>></span><span lang="DE"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject: Question - CSS Working Group Activities & W3C Publishing Business Group Goals</span></b><span lang="DE"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Date:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">1 September 2023 at 23:05:49 CEST</span><span lang="DE"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><<a href="mailto:ivan@w3.org">ivan@w3.org</a>></span><span lang="DE"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Reply-To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><<a href="mailto:ptykodi@tykodi.com">ptykodi@tykodi.com</a>></span><span lang="DE"></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Message-Id:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><<a href="mailto:032901d9dd18$168a3450$439e9cf0$@tykodi.com">032901d9dd18$168a3450$439e9cf0$@tykodi.com</a>></span><span lang="DE"></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Hi Ivan,</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">I haven’t posted into the W3C mailing lists I monitor for quite some time so I wanted to wish you belated congratulations on your retirement!</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">I am still participating in the activities of the IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group standards developing organization and I am currently the Co-chair of the PWG Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) Working Group. The PWG is the standards body, which originally developed the CSS-Print (<a href="https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/cs-xpcssprt10-20030331-5102.2.html"><span style="color:#0563c1">https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/cs-xpcssprt10-20030331-5102.2.html</span></a>) and XHTML-Print (<a href="https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/cs-xpxprt10-20030331-5102.1.pdf"><span style="color:#0563c1">https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/cs-xpxprt10-20030331-5102.1.pdf</span></a>) standards.</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Bill Wagner also represented the PWG and gave the attached presentation at the W3C Workshop titled “Publishing and the Open Web Platform”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/"><span style="color:#0563c1">https://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France back in 2013.</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Today, I received an email notification about an upcoming meeting of the W3C CSS Working Group. It reminded me that an active CSS Working Group might offer an opportunity to improve the printing support defined by CSS.</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">As far as I know, there has not been a lot of energy put into most of the following specifications or initiatives in the recent past:</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Priorities for CSS from the Digital Publishing Interest Group -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-css-priorities/"><span style="color:#0563c1">https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-css-priorities/</span></a></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">CSS Print Profile -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-print/"><span style="color:#0563c1">https://www.w3.org/TR/css-print/</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- CSS Working Group note says the working group has discontinued work on the document</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">XHTML-Print - Second Edition -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/"><span style="color:#0563c1">https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/</span></a></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">CSS Paged Media Module Level 3 -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-3/"><span style="color:#0563c1">https://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-3/</span></a></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">If the W3C Publishing Business Group might want to advocate for some specific CSS based improvements focused on printing/publishing during this latest iteration of CSS Working Group activities, I believe the Printer Working Group members would likely be willing to participate in W3C CSS working group related activities focused on improving how the CSS standard supports printing/publishing activities.</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Thanks.</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Best Regards,</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">/Paul</span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"> </span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Paul Tykodi</span></b><span lang="DE" 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