[tei-council] Formatting of the Guidelines

James Cummings James.Cummings at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jun 22 10:20:51 EDT 2007


James Cummings wrote:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> I hope that you are not going to pass these on unadulterated to the
>> programmer, James?
> 
> No, I was going to tidy them up organise them by type of thing, and then
> make myself a list of things to look at.  What programmer is it you're
> referring to?  As long as Dot and I, having


I seemed to not finish my sentence there.  I meant "As long as Dot and I,
having discussed it, understand what we mean, surely that is all that matters?


> 
>> Too many of them are like "Better styling of all Relax NG examples"
>> which does not really provide much a spec for what to change.....
> 
> In that case, that is a rephrased one where various people said things like
> "Better pretty printing of Relax NG fragments", etc. and so I summarised
> it.
> 
>> I'd also point out that there is no such thing as "Website issue". These
>> are (currently) entirely free-standing web pages. the web server adds
>> nothing.
> 
> Sorry, I don't buy that.  While it is true that these are free-standing
> webpages, the reason Guidelines have the the TEI logo in the top right-hand
> corner , the title in the place where it is, a navbar, a 'Skip Links' link,
> etc. is to make them fit in with the current website.  I don't believe it
> is in the remit of looking at the formatting of the Guidelines to redesign
> the super-structure in which it is placed.  Surely the layout of the title,
> etc., are going to have to change to fit in with whatever Virginia come up
> with as the new website.  While I'll give some thought to the toc issue
> that several people raised, the main aim is to get a consistent and
> attractive presentation of the content in the rh-col div.  As far as I'm
> concerned everything outside of that is bound to change depending on the
> new website that it will be a part of.  Surely you can't be suggesting
> that, users should be presented with an entirely different look and feel to
> the superstructure of the page than the rest of the TEI site?
> 
> -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



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