----- Original Message ----- From: Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de>

Joshua Hutchinson wrote:

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<l>"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,</l> <l rend="indent">As he landed his crew with care;</l>

<snipped> I think I understood everything but this line.

<l rend="indentX"> for X = 1, 2, 3

ugly, makes me want to puke. Negative indents ?

Negative indents? 1, 2, 3 would seem to indicate number of indents to apply, which would seem to me would be a positive indent number. I'm missing something here, I know it.

<l rend="indent indent">

better. Compatible with TEI spec. Falls back to one indent if more than one is not supported by XSLT.

I don't really like it. Too verbose and not as intuitive (IMO).

<l rend="indent(-1)">

still better.

Related to the negative indent comment above, I'm sure, but I'm still not connecting the dots.

<l indent="1">

most elegant but not so standard. Needs new attribute.

The not as "standard" is the only problem I have. But I could go either way if you feel strongly about it.

Structural tagging:

<lg type="limerick"> <l>There was a young lady of Riga,</l> <l>Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;</l> <lg rend="indent"> <l>They returned from the ride</l> <l>With the lady inside,</l> </lg> <l>And the smile on the face of the tiger.</l> </lg>

Looks fine to me (as long as the rend attribute is possible in the <l> tag, too, if necessary). Josh