Re: Gutenberg signout

> THE PAGE NUMBER PROBLEM
> A further note on the page numbers in hyde10 txt. To encode these original
> page numbers properly the element enclosing them would have to be an
inline
> element inside a paragraph, since they break some paragraphs in the
middle.
> In a style sheet it could be displayed as a block element. The page
element
> in the bookfrag DTD does not do this. It is a block element that can be
> placed between complete paragraphs, but not inside.

Yes this is a problem and it will need to be changed along the lines you
suggest. I don't really want to change the DTD for another 3 months, but it
is certainly something we need to revisit when we are designing version two
of the DTD. For now could you use the misc element with a class="pagenum"
attribute?

Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: Terence de giere <terence(at)humanfactors.com>
To: Donna M Smillie <dms(at)zetnet.co.uk>
Cc: <hwg-gutenberg(at)hwg.org>; <frank(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:49 AM
Subject: Gutenberg signout


> Donna, Frank ---
>
> I am signing out both PG #42, hyde10.txt and #43, hydea10.txt. The first
> e-text is the version with page numbers, the second does not have page
> numbers. Since it is the same book. It might be easier to work on both at
> once.
>
> THE PAGE NUMBER PROBLEM
> A further note on the page numbers in hyde10 txt. To encode these original
> page numbers properly the element enclosing them would have to be an
inline
> element inside a paragraph, since they break some paragraphs in the
middle.
> In a style sheet it could be displayed as a block element. The page
element
> in the bookfrag DTD does not do this. It is a block element that can be
> placed between complete paragraphs, but not inside.
>
> To put them in with the current DTD I would have to encode the first part
of
> the paragraph as <para>, then close the incomplete paragraph, then insert
> <page> and then finish the original paragraph in another <para> element.
> This way it would display as in the original e-text.
>
> Terence de Giere
> terence(at)humanfactors.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donna M Smillie <dms(at)zetnet.co.uk>
> To: Terence de giere <terence(at)humanfactors.com>
> Sent: 2000/February/25 / 19:55
> Subject: Re: Potential Gutenberg signout
>
>
> > Hi again Terence
> >
> > Is the text you're looking at "hyde10.txt" (PG #42) or "hydea10.txt" (PG
> > #43)?  Thanks.
> >
> > Donna
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Terence de giere <terence(at)humanfactors.com>
> >
> > > Frank ---
> > >
> > > I have been **thinking** of signing out Robert Louis Stevenson's "The
> > > Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", but have been short of free
> > time.
> >
> >
> >
>

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