Re: Potential Gutenberg signout

I'll sign it out to you for now, Terence.  If you decide you don't have
enough time to tackle it just let me know and I'll free it up in case
someone else takes a fancy to it.  :-)

Regards,
Donna

----- Original Message -----
From: Terence de giere <terence(at)humanfactors.com>
To: Frank Boumphrey <bckman(at)ix.netcom.com>
Cc: <dms(at)zetnet.co.uk>; <hwg-gutenberg(at)hwg.org>
Sent: 25 February 2000 23:47
Subject: Re: Potential Gutenberg signout


> 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.
>
> This text has a property I have not seen in other Gutenberg
documents - page
> numbers.
>
> This Gutenberg ASCII transcription appears to have the page numbers of
the
> orginal source publication. The bookfrag.dtd has an element <page>
which
> appears to be for page header related information or some other page
related
> info, since it is not a container for paragraphs etc., but I am not
sure it
> is suited for page numbers. I think it would be helpful at some point
to
> have some additional description of the elements in the DTD
>
> This is an editorial question. Page numbers on the Web are not really
> necessary yet, and printing an XML file in a publishing system, or
having
> CSS eventually paginate, would likely renumber pages depending on the
final
> target medium,  but I feel altering the text also removes some
information,
> such as how the source book or magazine was orginally paged.
>
> Can an element <pagenum> or <origpagenum> be added to the bookfrag DTD
to
> cover this situtation, or shall I just make a custom extended DTD just
for
> this situation, or eliminate the numbers from the text? I think it
would
> better to not have a proliferation of DTDs. If we used <origpagenum>
this
> would retain the info but could be surpressed in CSS so it wouldn't
show and
> allow an XML system to generate appropriate page numbers for other
kinds of
> presentation systems using another method. This would also free
<pagenum>
> for use with a current format system, if someone wanted to use it.
>
> Terence de Giere
> Human Factors International, Inc.
>
>

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