----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Shimmin" <shimmin@uiuc.edu>

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Now, do I agree that we will eventually find something that goes beyond what we've covered in the TEI spec? You better believe we will. But when that day comes, TEI can be expanded to cover the situation. Do I think this will be a common occurance? Not a chance.

This is just off the top of the stack of projects I would like to put through DP, but hold off on because they contain elements I consider presently unmanageable.

http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~shimmin/almanac.PNG

Today, if I could figure out a good way to handle it, I would write some styling for it, submit it, and be done with it. Tomorrow, I will have to bug some element of the PG bureaucracy to patch my styling into their code, which it may not be compatible with, or may disagree with their notions of markup elegance. A tool that works 90% of the time is a wonderful thing. A rule that works 90% of the time is not.

I can think of a few ways to do this. The easiest (and how I'd probably do it if I was in a hurry), is to just insert the whole figure as an image. <p rend="center"> <figure url="images/image01.png"><figDesc>A Table for the Sodaies letter and Leapeyear.</figDesc></figure></p> If I was a little more energetic (but still fairly lazy), I'd insert the circular part of the figure as an image with the text cut out and added as a blurb below it. <p rend="center"> <figure url="images/image01.png"><figDesc>A Table for the Sodaies letter and Leapeyear.</figDesc></figure></p> <p rend="center">A Table for the Sodaies letter and Leapeyear. blah blah blah</p> If I was REALLY energetic, I'd redo the graphic in SVG (a vector graphic image format), embed that within the TEI and be done. Since SVG is vector based, it has the nice side-effect of scaling very nicely to any output size, whether it is for printing through a PDF, or display on a monitor through HTML. Really, Robert, this one wouldn't have been a show-stopper for DP even without TEI. Josh