[sword-devel] Sword support of indents and line breaks

[Matěj Cepl]

On 12/04/13 08:04, John Austin wrote:
> Sword should support basic indents and line breaks. Content providers
> should be able to control the formatting of their texts and should not
> be required to assign their content to artificial <p>...</p> or other
> containers to do so. Although these containers might be useful, the text
> of some translation styles cannot be fit nicely into them. But often
> content providers do rightly desire their texts to appear with
> formatting similar to their printed texts, since this is exactly what
> the translators deemed easiest to read and understand.

If I may give my 0.02 CZK, I would think that the answer is simple: No. 
This goes against the fundamental rule of XML, which is the separation 
of the content (and structure) from presentation.

All whitespace in XML is collapsible and irrelevant for anything more 
than separating words from each other. If you want your text to look 
different, than please no <font> elements, no <milestone 
type="x-p-indent"/>, or other abomination like that. We were there 
(e.g., see whole discussion about <font> element in HTML 3.2) and it was 
not nice. Elements in XML document are just abstract entities without 
ANY notion of how they are supposed to be rendered in the end.

The only thing you should do is to fix your stylesheet or program 
rendering the XML document into whatever output you expect.

Best,

Matěj Cepl

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