----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Noring <jon@noring.name>
Marcello wrote:
Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
Certainly, how PG would enable style sheet swapping may be different than how CSS Zen Garden does it, but that's beside the point. The important point is that it can be done, and will be an exciting addition to PG by allowing readers to "have it their way" rather than "having it our way." We will not have to argue on whether we want 10% or 20% margins, etc. This will also entice many to submit their own CSS designs for people to use. But it all starts with the Master markup being done *right*.
I agree that the CSS provides a powerful and easy way to have different formats. However, we need a "standard" format as a base. The default style is the one that Joe Sixpack, for instance, will see when he clicks on the HTML doc link at the main PG website. We can then have the ability to "swap" CSS at the click of a button, but that functionality is somewhere down the road. We need a functional style in place now for this to move forward (back to Marcello's baby steps). Some of the issues I brought up are purely presentational and fall under the CSS heading. Some are functional (ie, the extra PG header at the beginning of the TEXT version). I think both need to be addressed and a "fix" decided on before XML can move forward. Currently, I'm working on marking up The Hunting of the Snark in PGTEI to see what further issues are introduced by poetry markup. As expected, there are a few and they are largely presentational in nature (CSS), but they need to be addressed to make sure that the XML itself is sufficient to the task of handling the content. Josh