Well, the page numbers is something I looked into having in the non-CSS versions (LYNX). However, it ended up being unworkable. Basically, since you can't move them to the side in LYNX, they appear right in the middle of the text. And then, if you didn't know already what it was, it looked like it was part of the sentence you were reading and didn't make a whole lot of sense. This was the best compromise I could come up with. A minimum functionality (the functionality offered by the vast majority of HTML texts we offer) with a few added benefits for the browsers that can support them. And IE can show the page numbers, it just doesn't do it by default. Since IE doesn't have on the fly style switching, it requires modifying the HTML doc manually. Definitely something I wish I could avoid, but since I can't, I tried to default the layout to the least obtrusive. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Baechler <tb@baechler.net> To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject: re: Re: [gutvol-d] Re: aspects of a well-done e-book Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:13:59 -0700
At 01:41 PM 10/20/2004 -0500, you wrote:
That is what the page numbers markup currently does. It hides the page numbers for those the minimum, default behavior, but if you have a browser that supports it, you can see those page numbers appear. Similarly with poetry. It has features that allow the browser to rewrap nicely if there is a long line, if the necessary CSS support is there ... but if not, it still displays the poem with its normal indents, it just doesn't rewrap nicely for you.
OK, but I have a question. I regularly use Lynx because of convenience. I prefer plain text but I will sometimes use lynx to convert html when necessary. Let's say that I do, in fact, want the page numbers. How am I supposed to get them if my browser doesn't support it? Lynx doesn't do css as far as I know, so what you're saying is that page numbers will always be hidden from me unless I want to look at the raw html source. Because plain text is, among other things, removing the markup from html, wouldn't that also eliminate the page numbers? I can use IE and it is accessible to the blind, but according to what you said IE hides different styles anyway. So, unless I misunderstood the above completely, some information will always be inaccessible to me. Right? Please don't tell me to use Mozilla or some other browser. At some point they will probably be accessible, but not for now. They are working on it but aren't there yet.
I would like to repeat that I still prefer plain text and normally I wouldn't even care about line indents or page numbers. However, it would be nice to at least be able to access the information if I have a need for it.
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