[osis-core] sidebars

[Todd Tillinghast]

Patrick and Chris,

I don't think we should add "sidebar" at any point.  The notes (or other
content that are not notes) that may be presented to the side should be
encoded as a specific type of note using the already existing note
types.  Where they get rendered is a matter of layout and presentation.

It is possible that they could use the editions="study" attribute and
value to indicate that these are notes that only apply in study editions
and the render would know to put them to the side.  (worse would be
editions="sidebar")

Todd



> -----Original Message-----
> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:53 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: [osis-core] sidebars
> 
> Chris,
> 
> > USFM provides an element for identifying material that will appear
in
> > a sidebar.  <div type="sidebar"> would be the obvious solution, but
> > that is rather presentation-oriented.  Another solution would be to
> > force users to decide what types of material they are presenting in
> > sidebars (e.g. background notes) and to indicate that.
> 
> If I had my preference, both type="sidebar" and type="x-sidebar" would
> be fatal OSIS errors. ;-)
> 
> Sidebars, as you know, are flow objects that are determined at the
time
> of rendering. I can imagine when we reach markup for manuscripts that
we
> will want to allow marking of the location of a note (and other
things)
> in the original and that will be abused when we make that possible.
> 
> In terms of going into OSIS markup, would need to convert into
whatever
> elements are appropriate and select them with a stylesheet. I assume
> this is something consistent to a particular edition and not notes of
> the same kind can appear at the end of columns, as footnotes or as
> sidebar notes?
> 
> Hope you are having a great day!
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
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> Patrick Durusau
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