On 12/21/05, Bowerbird@aol.com <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
lee said:
Perhaps the right thing to do is to consider the XHTML version as the canonical version
um, no thanks...
Indeed. It would be more sensible to mark the poem (indeed the whole work) in TEI, and use that as the canonical version. Several DPers are working quite hard in preparing the way for a gradual transition to a PG-themed TEI. Hopefully within a couple of years almost all the work DP produces will be in a format which will enable us to produce multiple document versions (HTML, text, PDF, LaTeX) with very little human intervention required. Until that's ready, however, using something like XHTML sensibly can work very well -- this means marking structure, not presentation. Don't mark up a poem like this: <pre> satisfy the best soodra society,--<br/> "With the yellow torches gleaming,<br/> And the scarlet mantles streaming,<br/> And the canopy above<br/> Swaying as they slowly move."<br/> Karlee has assured me that neither his </pre> but instead enclose each line within a start/end tag, each stanza within a start/end tag, etc., using CSS to fine tune the presentational details. -- Jon Ingram