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> > As to whole running heads stuff. It may be interesting to
> > render such ( exotic ) usecase you are talking about.
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> Running headings are not exotic. They are very common in books. I would
> guess that if you picked up two or three books right now, one of them at
> least would have running headings.

I picked up 10 books, trying to find something that look 
'not renderable'. There are just different page headers there.  
Each of our 40 testcases at   www.renderx.com  has a 
page header.

> Dictionary-style headings are slightly exotic but they are just a special
> case of running headings.

Maybe it'l be possible to get the presize example of what could be 
easily rendered by  'typical day-to-day formatter' but not by XSL FO
based formatter ? 

.xml input ( .xml content ) +  expected PDF output looks like 
a good way to specify the usecase. Unfortunately without 
such a specification  we may spend a very long time trying to guess 
what is considered  to be a real  problem with "runnig heads"
for  XSL FO formatter but not  for 'typical day-to-day' formatter.

> Note that XSL doesn't currently support running headings (at least not when
> a section doesn't get its own page sequence), so if the focus is solely on
> implementing XSL 1.0, you could get away with not supporting running
> headings.

The focus is to show that XSL FO is not a dead meat.  Or to understand 
that it is dead meat - so it is not worth supporting it. 
 
> However, I guarantee that, if not the first, then the second person that
> comes along wanting to produce a real book with XSL will wish your product
> supported running headings.

> If book publishing is not your focus, again, you could probably get away
> with not supporting running headings.

Book publishing is not our focus yet, but clean experiment  with 
'typical day-to-day formatters'  and XSL FO formatter is.

Rgds.Paul.

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