[tei-council] repetition in the description of @place

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jan 16 05:54:53 EST 2009


Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Lou Burnard wrote:
> 
>> margin-bot   -> page-foot
>> margin-left  -> left
>> margin-right -> right
>> margin-top   -> page-top
> 
> why not left, right, top, bottom, as per (eg) CSS names?
> the "page-" is open to the question "what if I have multiple
> columns, does that mean the bottom of the page or the bottom
> of the column?" bottom and top leaves it open :-}
> 

Hmm... wonder why you mention CSS :-)

Yes. The original made a subtle distinction between "at the foot of the 
page in a separate block" and "in the bottom margin of the page". I 
think I agree with your proposal that the suggested values should not be 
so super-subtle.


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