In the move to DTP, a lot of the old typographic controls were lost. Inheritance is a good concept. We need mechanisms for semantic to typographic mapping. Fast Forward Technologies is a company supporting information technology as a means to diversify the rural economy. To do printing on the web, we need need a flexible mechanism for identifying the 'boundary layer' of a hypertext.
Links have a measure of the 'length' associated with their traversal.
This length would be context sensitive, alas, so it's not a trivial job. Link length combined with a default ordering and traversal algorithm would be a way to specify the structure of a collection as a target for printing. Adobe has long experience in the area of printing. Our solutions solve problems on paper, but not always on the screen. There is a synergy between HTML and PDF for structure and text.