[osis-core] styles

[Patrick Durusau]

Harry,

Just a quick note before I dash into ISO meetings.

Not sure I understand the use case. You make reference to XSL-FO, did 
you mean XSLT? More importantly, what is it that you are trying to do 
with the Word editor?

In other words, are you trying to capture the formatting that a user may 
impose when authoring an OSIS document?

Not sure why you would want to capture that information. Assuming it 
exports a clean OSIS text, don't we have stylesheets for standard 
presentation of the text?

It is highly likely that I am overlooking something quite simple, since 
I have been short on sleep most of this week. Will be returning to 
Covington late tomorrow so may be a little clearer by early next week.

Hope you and yours are looking forward to a happy holiday season!

Patrick

Harry Plantinga wrote:
> Andrew Proper and I are still having trouble getting our Microsoft Word 
> 2003 osis-import XSLT to read in two different files, because of the way 
> Word/XSLT handles temporary directories.
> 
> We are currently considering the following solution for storing a 
> document stylesheet inside the OSIS file itself. Tell us if it's too 
> horrible to contemplate:
> 
> Add an element in the header of the document, something like this:
> 
> <html:style type="text/css">
>  p   {text-indent: 0.5in; margin-top: 12pt}
> </html:style>
> 
> Of course, it will be possible to store the OSIS document and the 
> stylesheet separately and combine them into one or split a combined file 
> into two with simple utilities. This is just for getting the document 
> and styling into and out of Word.
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> The other issue is that CSS, not being XML syntax, is easy to generate 
> but hard to parse for other purposes. It will be hard to read in a CSS 
> stylesheet and parse it with an XSLT. So CSS may in fact not be 
> appropriate.
> 
> It turns out that XSL-FO doesn't really seem appropriate to us either. 
> It is intended for describing formatted blocks and pages, not standoff 
> formatting per se.
> 
> We could make up our own XML syntax for the CSS stylesheet, as the CCEL 
> already does. (See the stylesheets in /ccel/c/calvin/calcom01.xml, for 
> example -- one CSS, one an XML representation of CSS.) Or, we could just 
> duplicate the WordML stylesheet.  Any other suggestions for an 
> XML-format stylesheet language we could use?
> 
> Or shall we embed all the formatting in <hi> elements? [WARNING: THAT 
> WAS ONLY AN ATTEMPT AT HUMOR]
> 
> -Harry Plantinga
> 
> 
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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

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