[osis-core] 3.2.17. Lines within a line group

[Chris Little]

Patrick,

Yes, that would be my preference also.  I guess it does look like I'm 
proposing using type as an alternative I prefer, but I was just listing 
the alteratives we listed at the meeting .

--Chris

Patrick Durusau wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Rather than overload type, which users may want for other purposes, 
> would be better to add a level attribute, restricted to 
> positiveInteger datatype.
>
> Reasoning is that it is fairly close to presentation but since the 
> user might be encoding what is observed, i.e, preserving information 
> from the the encoding target, it is different from saying 
> indent="0.24" or some such. It should also be noted that XSLT could 
> not produce the desired result since it occurs without any known 
> pattern, unless there is additional information recorded to make that 
> possible.
>
> Hope you are having a great day!
>
> Patrick
>
> Chris Little wrote:
>
>> Dallas issue:
>> > Use type="q", type="q2" (or similar type names) and a set of other 
>> standardized types to indicate the specific nature of the <l> element.
>>
>> We briefly discussed adding a level attribute to the l element to 
>> indicate levels of indentation.  ThML does this, I believe.  And 
>> alternative would be to standardize types like "level1", "level2", & 
>> "level3".  I do not believe "q" or "q2" should be used--those come 
>> from SFM and don't communicate much at all to anyone who hasn't used 
>> SFM.
>>
>> This is separate from the <lb> issue.  These would go on l elements 
>> of genuine poetic lines.
>>
>> This is in addition to embedded lg elements, which aren't very 
>> economical to use when lines alternate indentation, as is common.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>>
>>
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