Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> writes:
Jeroen Hellingman wrote:
2. The rend attributes are ill-chosen and need reworking.
rend is a global attribute and can be used on all TEI elements. It is counter-intuitive to make the effect dependent on the element.
<figure rend="left"> floats the picture to the left <p rend="left"> makes a ragged-right paragraph
better use
<figure rend="float(left)"> <p rend="text-align(left)">
Should `rend' then be a means of passing CSS to a processor? I see a lot of people using the `rend' attribute as a means of dumping in presentational instructions, when it should be used as a means of describing the original: ,----[ TEI Manual: Global Attributes ] | rend (rendition or presentation) indicates how the element in question | was rendered or presented in the source text. | Datatype: CDATA | Values: any string of characters; if the typographic rendition | of a text is to be systematically recorded, a | systematic set of values for the rend attribute should | be defined. | Default: #IMPLIED `---- I would suggest that PG define a set of enumerated values for `rend' which then can be mapped to CSS. That is more restrictive and requires changing the datatype. Any thoughts? b/ -- Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Bangkok, Thailand