Pardon !!??????? Am 27.02.2011 um 18:57 schrieb don kretz:
"A lot of fluff which looks nice and makes their editor simple to use." How inconsiderate.
The problem is that people don't write well-formed text. They write prose and poetry. They write catalogs and plays and textbooks. All of which are often not "well-formed" structurally. Shakespeare especially so. Have you ever tried to map a Shakespeare play to XHTML?
Never heard of "well formed text", please define! What is so hard about prose and poetry! Like I said I would not use XHTML. But, it can be done. Also, you can extend XHTML to get what you need.
A "page" is often discontinguous with a Chapter or a Verse or Stanza or Scene. You have footnotes and sidenotes and stage directions willy-nilly. There's no "simple" way for a rigorously hierarchical method to accommodate that. (and X- is distinguished if anything for its rigor).
So the problem is not Shakespeare, but those who carelessly mis-transcribed the structure of his work?
I would not say that they mis-transcribe! It is a matter of layout! So you need a method for adding sidenotes use marginals use a pop-up use divs use frames link to somewhere else The questions is how can they be represented. One of the OLDEST METHODS to do this is to use TABLES. Sure it looks ugly in code, but is a adequate work around. Stage Direction are often injected to the flow of the play and formatted so and so.
I'll wait to see your special Editor. At least bb is willing to put it on the line.
The problem is not the editor. It is the internal structure you want to represent a text in. Then one can write a editor that is easy to use. The fact of the matter the user or author of a ebook should not need to care how it is done, just what it looks like in the end. regards Keith.