Joshua wrote:
Lee Passey wrote:
On a related note, let me say that I view internal style declarations as just plain rude. Style sheets are indeed A Good Thing, but someone imposing their quirky notions of style on me is not. By placing style definitions in an external style sheet and simply linking that style sheet into the main document with a <link> element, it makes it easy for me to strip away the suggested styles, and return to browser defaults, by simply deleting or renaming the style sheet. And if the suggested styles are mostly good, and need only a slight tweaking, it is safer and easier to edit an external style sheet than the main document. I would strongly encourage all PG volunteers who are creating HTML documents to consider putting suggested style definitions in an external style sheet rather than embedding those styles in the main document.
Let me say that I agree. But right now, the ww'ers have indicated that they want all styles inline. I think this practice should be changed, but it isn't my call.
I'm a little puzzled by this because it implies there is no "standardization" of the HTML markup. I think the XHTML markup should be standardized enough around a structural/ semantic basis (not a presentational basis) so that a standardized style sheet can be used for most of the books in the proofing process. In XHTML this can be a standardized "class" library mapped from TEI tags (for a possible flavor of TEI to use, see Marcello's lastest draft of PGTEI at http://www.gutenberg.org/tei/marcello/0.3/doc/20000-h/20000-h.html ) Jon Noring