----- Original Message ----- From: Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de>
Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
I think I'd prefer the rend="block" over "display" just because it is a little more intuitive. Thanks for tracking that down Scott.
"display" is different from "block".
A display is a chunk of text set off (displayed) from the rest usually by enlarging the left and right margins and inserting some top and bottom margins.
A block is just a plain old block with nothing special to distinguish it from any block fore or aft.
The HTML tag <blockquote> is just a bit misnamed.
The barebones guide didn't seem to make a distinction between the two, but if "display" seems more correct to you, I'm willing to use it.
I also found how to handle sidenotes since I wrote that original message.
<note place="margin">
This works only in HTML for now. Ideas on how to display it in TXT without wasting a lot of space?
In a text file, I would say one of two ways. 1 - Easy way, just treat it like a footnote/endnote and stick it at the end. 2 - Slightly better way (pulled from how DP texts do it) ... Move the note to before the paragraph it is part off and mark it with a [Sidenote: blah blah] markup. Both methods lose a little fidelity, since the Sidenote is not printed exactly right by the text it refers to, like it would in the original. But method two keeps it fairly close, and context should allow the reader to easily tell the part of the paragraph it refers to. Method one would allow the marker to appear near its original source location, but the information is now not in the same eye region. The user must click to the notes section to see the information, which is commonly meant to be more accessible/more important than a typical footnote. Josh