[osis-core] dictionary/glossary question

Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:00:50 -0400

A 'role' attribute would work for me. If it were considered
kosher, I could also use it instead of 'format' in the <head>
elements --

<creator role="Author" type="canonical">

-Harry

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> From: owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> [mailto:owner-osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org]On Behalf Of Patrick
> Durusau
> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 3:11 PM
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> Subject: [osis-core] dictionary/glossary question
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> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Just cleaning up the mail along with the major posts (yes osisRef is 
> still coming later today) and thought about Harry's problem with using 
> up type on label and item if he tries to use list for a dictionary. (I 
> still think dictionary markup is a snakepit that we don't want to tackle 
> for basic markup.)
> 
> For the back-of-the-book glossary, simply term/definition (you will note 
> I am skipping over multiple forms, pronunciation, alternatives 
> spellings, grammatical information, and that is a subset of what occurs 
> before the actual definition. It gets worse from thereon out. ;-) I 
> still think with the role attribute  (discovered for use  with  the <a> 
> and other elements by Harry) we  can get the extra information that 
> Harry needs without using up  type (which may be needed for 
> something else.
> 
> Proposal: add role attribute as global. Document to use with label and 
> item to say role="term" for label and role="definition" for item  to do 
> simple glossary/dictionary type items.
> 
> Note  that <label> includes <w>  so if you want to add  the form of a 
> word you could.
> 
> Does that get us most of the way?
> 
> Patrick
> 
> -- 
> Patrick Durusau
> Director of Research and Development
> Society of Biblical Literature
> pdurusau@emory.edu
> 
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