Re: a change to bookfrag1.dtd

Actually the decision to omit it at this level was quite deliberate. It was
felt that line should always be part of a smaller structural unit.

In fact line is inclded in all the structural units except paragraph.

Perhaps what is need is a unit equivalent to XHTML's 'pre' for when the
detailed layout _is_ important. I am thinking here of when Alice gets
smaller and smaller in Wonderland!

Perhaps an element called 'layout' which could contain lines and have a set
of attributes that detail styling.

However there are only a very few cases where styling is integral to the
meaning of the plot, and I think it most important that we keep a very
strong distinction between the documents content and structure and it's
style!

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: arthur wendover <arthurgw(at)idirect.com>
To: <hwg-gutenberg(at)hwg.org>; <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 10:22 AM
Subject: a change to bookfrag1.dtd


> I would like to suggest a change to bookfrag1.dtd
> The word  ' line ' should be added to elements chapter simplesect, sect1
etc.
>
> <!ELEMENT chapter
((title|chapheader)?,(para|line|poem|song|sect1|simplesect|page
> %block.class;)*,endchap?)>
> <!ATTLIST chapter  %stdatts;
> >
>
> This will allow two classes for line ' right and center '.
> This could be used instead of para to adjust center and adjust
> right text like letter parts within a chapter of a book.
> dates to right   salutations  signatures  etc.
>
> <line class="right">class="right"</line>
> <line class="center">class="center"</line>
> resulting in
>
> class="right"
>   class="center"
>
> They would look something like this:
>  according to taste in the style sheet.
>
> line.center{
> display:block;
> text-align:center;
> font-size:12pt;
> font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> margin-left:24pt;
> margin-right:24pt;
> font-style: normal;
> }
>
> line.right{
> display:block;
> text-align:right;
> font-size:12pt;
> font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> margin-left:24pt;
> margin-right:24pt;
> font-style: normal;
> }
> This is specifically for single line problems within chapter.
> Right now it only works within poem,song or verse.
> I am not saying that it cannot be done without a change. I would
> welcome any changes.
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