Perhaps, what you are saying tacitly is that because the format for
such keywords is Int or IntxInt where each Int value has a well defined
meaning, we could just as well define resolution as a new syntax type and
allow printer vendors to use new values of Int without the need to
register them.
Comments?
Bob Herriot
> From cmanros@cp10.es.xerox.com Fri Jun 6 16:42:36 1997
>
> At 01:44 PM 6/6/97 PDT, Neil Joffe wrote:
> >You will need to specify the following pairs:
> >x-res=300, y-res=300
> >x-res=300, y-res=600
> >x-res=600, y-res=600
> >
> >or maybe
> >
> >x-res=600, y-res=600
> >x-res=300, y-res>=xres
>
>
> Maybe I am too simplistic here, but it seems that everybody in this
> discussion is assuming that the values have to be numeric and hence we have
> to a x-value and a y-value.
>
> Why not stay with a simple approach of using ASCII text strings, and just
> define ONE attribute with the value for the attribute being a simple text
> string allowing values like:
>
> "300x300"
> "300x600"
> "600x600" etc
>
> with an additional rule that what comes before the "x" is the x-value and
> what comes after it is the y-value.
>
> This could also allow for cases like:
>
> "300"
>
> which would be semantically equivalent to:
>
> "300x300"
>
> Comments?
>
> Carl-Uno
>
>
>
> Carl-Uno Manros
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