Josh replied:
Jon Noring wrote:
I'm a little puzzled by this because it implies there is no "standardization" of the HTML markup.
I think the XHTML markup should be standardized enough around a structural/ semantic basis (not a presentational basis) so that a standardized style sheet can be used for most of the books in the proofing process.
In XHTML this can be a standardized "class" library mapped from TEI tags (for a possible flavor of TEI to use, see Marcello's lastest draft of PGTEI at
http://www.gutenberg.org/tei/marcello/0.3/doc/20000-h/20000-h.html )
The "standardization" is there ... it just doesn't go as far as to specify a standard style sheet.
Ah, ok, so I was probably preaching to the choir.
Now, the TEI has a "working" standard style sheet, but there have already been some changes identified in testing.
Once, we have the final transforms worked out, I plan on having an open call for style sheets on DP.
Good to hear! I suggest, when that time comes, to post a request to the YahooGroup "CSS-Style". There's a number of CSS experts there who may consider helping PG/DP out with alternative CSS style sheets. One can't have too many different ways to view the same content. (This is the next thing I plan with the "My Antonia" proof-of-concept project -- to ask for alternative style sheets for the document. Let the end-user try different layouts and choose the one they prefer.) Jon Noring