[osis-core] 3.2.17. Lines within a line group

Patrick Durusau osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:04:37 -0400


Chris,

Added level attribute.

Will ship the current draft just before Steve and I break for dinner 
tonight.

Patrick

Chris Little wrote:

> Patrick,
>
> Yes, that would be my preference also.  I guess it does look like I'm 
> proposing using type as an alternative I prefer, but I was just 
> listing the alteratives we listed at the meeting .
>
> --Chris
>
> Patrick Durusau wrote:
>
>> Chris,
>>
>> Rather than overload type, which users may want for other purposes, 
>> would be better to add a level attribute, restricted to 
>> positiveInteger datatype.
>>
>> Reasoning is that it is fairly close to presentation but since the 
>> user might be encoding what is observed, i.e, preserving information 
>> from the the encoding target, it is different from saying 
>> indent="0.24" or some such. It should also be noted that XSLT could 
>> not produce the desired result since it occurs without any known 
>> pattern, unless there is additional information recorded to make that 
>> possible.
>>
>> Hope you are having a great day!
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> Chris Little wrote:
>>
>>> Dallas issue:
>>> > Use type="q", type="q2" (or similar type names) and a set of other 
>>> standardized types to indicate the specific nature of the <l> element.
>>>
>>> We briefly discussed adding a level attribute to the l element to 
>>> indicate levels of indentation.  ThML does this, I believe.  And 
>>> alternative would be to standardize types like "level1", "level2", & 
>>> "level3".  I do not believe "q" or "q2" should be used--those come 
>>> from SFM and don't communicate much at all to anyone who hasn't used 
>>> SFM.
>>>
>>> This is separate from the <lb> issue.  These would go on l elements 
>>> of genuine poetic lines.
>>>
>>> This is in addition to embedded lg elements, which aren't very 
>>> economical to use when lines alternate indentation, as is common.
>>>
>>> --Chris
>>>
>>>
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Patrick Durusau
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