[tei-council] Fwd: style lang definition

[Martin Holmes]

Yes to both of these. I don't think there is a serious alternative to 
CSS anywhere. XSL:FO is a different kind of thing entirely, and in any 
case it uses CSS to express typographical styles; I don't really see how 
it could be used as a style description language in the context of a TEI 
element. DSSSL is obsolete and I really don't know of anything else.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-10-06 08:58 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Apologies, I had forgotten that the minutes of the Oxford meeting quite
> clearly (if elliptically) provide a better solution to this problem.
>
> * A new element, which will be declarable, to specify the style language
> will also be created after discussion on council list.
>
> * @scheme on <rendition> should be moved into its own class, so that the
> new element can have it.
>
> So here's for the "discussion on council list"
>
> I am proposing to create a new element <styleDefDecl> to specify the
> default formal language used to express rendition, and also a new
> attribute class att.styleDef. This class will supply unchanged the
> attribute @source, currently locally defined on <rendition>. The new
> element will be a member of model.encodingPart, so it will occur,
> possibly multiple times, within <encodingDesc> It will also be a member
> of att.declarable, so you can use one language in one chunk of a
> language and another in another. Nevertheless, I would like to  add some
> prose to the effect that using more than one lang in a given document is
> Not A Good Idea, since it makes the combination of rendition information
> (already possible factored across three different places) needlessly
> complicated.
>
> Does this sound plausible?
>
> And is there any support for my suggestion that in the absence of a
> <styleDefDecl> we assume @style values (and <rendition> contents) are in
> CSS?
>
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [tei-council] style lang definition
> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 16:08:09 +0100
> From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk>
> To: <tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
>
> On 05/10/12 19:35, Martin Holmes wrote:
>
>>    > -- Where do we specify the language in which @style values are
>> expressed ?
>>
>> There has to be an element in the header, presumably in <tagsDecl>.
>> Something like this:
>>
>> <style scheme="css"></style>
>>
>> although I'm not sure we want to go with the same potential confusion as
>> we've already got with <rendition> vs @rendition.
>
> This would be OK, except that we already have <rendition scheme="css">
> inside <tagsDecl> which would give us two ways of doing the same thing.
> I am proposing to just use the existing mechanism, which means that we
> will need to require that if @style is used anywhere there must be (at
> least) one <rendition> with a @scheme attribute in the header. Unless we
> want to say "if all else fails it's got to be in CSS".
>
> I checked in a bunch of changes to CO and ST yesterday as part of this
> fix, so  if you want to see how the revision is going, visit (for
> example)
> http://tei.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tei/trunk/P5/Source/Guidelines/en/CO-CoreElements.xml?r1=10912&r2=10924
>
>

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Martin Holmes
mholmes at uvic.ca
UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre