[tei-council] pdf version of P5

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Peter Boot wrote:
>
> 1. there does not seem to be a 'printed' table of contents.
gosh, yes, I had completely forgotten! I'll get that in.
>
> 2. the front matter, such as the Gentle Introduction and the Languages 
> and Character Sets chapter, has roman numerals on the web site. That 
> makes their 'front' status clear. In the pdf Guidelines they are 
> unnumbered, which makes you wonder why after what seem to be the first 
> few chapters we should suddenly have a chapter 1.
you are right, front matter sections to be numbered in roman. will do
> 3. The bookmarks give no indication that the appendices are appendices.
i will look at that
>
> 4. Hyperlinks to a section now typically jump to a location just below 
> the section title, which I find disorienting. Would it be possible to 
> jump to just before the title?
hmm. that may be harder, its an old LaTeX thing. I'll investigate
>
> 5. It was recently mentioned on TEI-L that it would be useful to have 
> a list of all attributes. Is it too late to add a list, or just an 
> index on the attribute names as they occur in appendices B and C? I'm 
> sure I would use that a lot.
that neeeds some more thought. do others agree that this is a useful
facility?
>
> 6. Would it be possible to hyperlink the element names in the text to 
> appendix C?
Maybe. to be honest, I was not really considering this _as_ PDF, just
as a means to get a printed page

what do people feel about indices in general?

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