[osis-core] Shadow milestones

[Steve DeRose]

At 04:59 PM -0400 06/30/02, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Trying to cover any other issues that look "outstanding." May be 
>others, please chime in, I only claim to notice those that I notice 
>and not the complete set. ;-)
>
>Steve wrote:
>
>>C-001: "Shadow milestones' for where to scroll to when it isn't 
>>just the default of top of unit (say, scrolling to before a header 
>>or intro material, etc)
>
>Can you say a word or two about "shadow milestones?" Understand that 
>Bob needs/wants them and we agreed to provide but not sure how they 
>differ from a regular milestone? Is this an attribute sort of thingy?

No, basically he just wants a special milestone to drop in, typical 
slightly earlier than the real start of chapter/verse/whatever, that 
means 'If asked for this reference, scroll here instead of to the 
actual place where the referenced text starts'. This is definitely 
useful, though most people won't encode it.

Actually, I wonder if this should be a processing instruction? that's 
what it is conceptually.....

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