[tei-council] formatting of guidelines - schema fragments

[James Cummings]

Laurent Romary wrote:
> BNF: Yearrrk.
> 
> I must admit I do read RelaxNG fragment to check the content models and
> their presence inliine within chapters is quite a nice feature for me. I
> have more problems with the fact that for each class description, we get
> the various variants of linearisation (ordered, unordered, optional,
> etc.). Could we get rid of that?
> 

Since we're in the process of re-examining how the guidelines should be
displayed, there is of course another possibility.  That is, this
information could be hidden from view until some expansion text is click by
the user. (c.f. recent TEI-L discussion on inline display of marginal
annotations)   This would allow the majority of users just to ignore their
existence, and the interested few to expand the CSS-hidden specifications
when they desire.

How much are we wedded to the notion of avoiding use of javascript and similar?

Although I was going to wait until after Dot and I had our brainstorming
meeting, if anyone has any other suggestions for how the display of the
guidelines can be improved do let us know (preferably on-list to encourage
debate).

-James

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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk