[osis-core] dictionary/glossary question

[Steve DeRose]

At 03:10 PM -0400 06/30/02, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>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?
>

I could live with that, though dt/dd is so common that I wouldn't 
mind adding it either. Thoughts, everybody?

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Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
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