[tei-council] for Council to consider: new datatype

[Julia Flanders]

I think "output" or "display" is the right sort of term. And having a 
set of these (potentially to include other things like typesetting or 
gemstones) as subclasses of the general "measurement" category seems 
like an interesting idea.

--Julia

At 8:05 PM -0400 10/10/05, Syd Bauman wrote:
>SR> data.webMeasure?
>
>I like that a lot better. Of course, XSLFO may well be used for
>printed pages. But 'data.outputMeasurement' seems kinda clunky.
>
>
>LB> (a) why restrict it to web measurements? there might well be
>LB>     other attributes for which we'd want to specify number+units
>LB>     in a single value.
>
>Darn good question. The difficulty is that if we use it for other
>things, we need to include all sorts of units, some that won't make
>any sense for a given attribute. So either we make up a separate
>datatype for each set of units a set of attributes wants, or we live
>with a system that permits ridiculous values like
>   <graphic height="1.1m" width="76kg"/>
>   <person height="256px" weight="3em"/>
>   <when interval="14.7mg"/>
>Personally, I would much prefer a few extra datatypes. (There can't
>be that many needed, can there?
>
>
>>  (b) some of these units look a bit exotic to me : isn't a "rem" a
>>      unit of exposure to radiation? couldnt find it in css3 anyway
>
>I think they're outright weird. Got 'em straight from
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-values-20050726/#numbers0, where
>"rem" is listed as "the font size of the root element".
>
>
>>  "dimension" suggests the axis along which the measurement is made
>>  to me, not the actual measurement.
>
>I think you're right, "measurement" is better. If we go with one
>datatype fits all, then "data.measurement" makes sense. If we go with
>different datatypes for different kinds of measurement, then things
>like "data.lengthMeasurement" and "data.massMeasurement" or
>"data.measurement.typesetting" and "data.measurement.length" and
>"data.measurement.mass" might make sense. (We don't really have any
>mass ones, I don't think; just using that as an example.)
>
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