Hi Don, A very true and sad statement. That is why decent guidelines are needed, inorder to lead the blind. regards Keith. Am 27.02.2012 um 21:28 schrieb don kretz:
Of course you realize that all this is way beyond what should be expected of a person who is proofing and marking up text.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote: On Mon, February 27, 2012 3:45 am, Robert Gibbins wrote:
Jim Adcock wrote on Fri Feb 17 (somewhat precised by me):
... the common PG/DP approach which I think is being generated by guiguts is not bad: ... ... <style type="text/css"> ... .poem span.i0 {display: block; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} ... .poem span.i2 {display: block; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} ... .poem span.i4 {display: block; margin-left: 2em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} ... </style> ... ... <div class="poem"> ... <div class="stanza"> ... <span class="i0">There was a young man of St. Kitts,<br /></span> ... <span class="i0">Who was very much troubled with fits;<br /></span> ... <span class="i2"> The eclipse of the moon<br /></span> ... <span class="i2"> Threw him into a swoon;<br /></span> ... <span class="i0">Where he tumbed and broke into bits.<br /></span> ... </div> ... </div>
The abstraction of a "line" which would ideally be displayed on one line of a small device, but with extra wrap-indent when it cannot, seems extremely useful (for those machines on which it works). A couple of questions though: 1. Is there an obvious reason not to use: div.i0 {margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}, etc and <div class="i0">There was a young man...</div>, etc?
No. According to the HTML spec, "[The <DIV> and <SPAN>] elements define content to be inline (SPAN) or block-level (DIV) but impose no other presentational idioms on the content." Other than hiding a section of text ("display:none") there is no reason to set the display attribute of either element; just use the correct one to begin with.
Somehow using a tag which is inherently a block seems more simple and obvious than using a span with {display: block;}
True.
2. Is there an unstated reason/convention for describing an indent of 1em as class=i2, 2em as class=i4, etc? This is not a trick question, I ask from curiosity/ignorance.
While clearly ugly, the use of non-breaking spaces to offset lines is more flexible that using CSS. I tend to avoid CSS for styling in those instances where the presentation /must not/ vary. _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d
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