[osis-core] cell content alignment

[Patrick Durusau]

Greetings,

Chris posted the following on alignment in cells:

> Right/left justified & centered table cells
> 
> The contents of table cells, like poetic lines, may be right or left
> justified or centered.
> 
> An solution similar to that for <l> is one possibility. 

His solution for <l> was:

> <l type="unknown" subType="start|center|end"> for \q1, \qc, & \qr,
> respectively, assuming LtR text.

***Comments on his <l> solution:

While I have liked a lot of his solutions, this one is the exception. 
Sorry Chris!

I don't see "start|center|end" as being subtypes of <l>. For example, I 
could be marking poetry and have:

<l type="poetry" subType="2syllables">
<l type="poetry" subType="4syllables">
<l type="poetry" subType="6syllables">
<l type="poetry" subType="8syllables">
<l type="poetry" subType="2syllables">

Lest Todd think that is contrived, it is actually a form of poetry 
invented by the American poet Adelaid Crapsey. Known as Cinquain. (Yes, 
I cheated and Googled for poetry to find that example. see, 
http://www.mca.k12.nf.ca/subpro5.htm)

****Back to the cell problem****

Note that <cell> can contain 31 one other elements (see the chart that 
Steve and I labored so hard to prepare), so <cell> is not the only place 
where you could record formatting information.

Depending upon what is inside the <cell> there may be a legitimate 
element on which to base a particular formating. Or, you may simply want 
all content of cells left, centered or right aligned. Don't see what 
putting an attribute on <cell> really buys us.

Unless, of course, you think people should be able to left justfy some 
cells, center others and still others right justify? Seems unlikely at 
best. I would set the style for the table to do one formatting to all 
the contents of the cells.

The only table as such that I could find quicking in the NIV is the 
Harmony of the Gospels and that is all aligned left.

Unless of course you are talking about tables that were used for 
formatting and not encoding structure. All bets are off on those.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

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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
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