Thinking more about this, I guess what I'd really like would be a global
attribute @cssClass, and a way to include a CSS stylesheet that doesn't
require another namespace. @rendition won't do because its value must be
"one or more URIs, separated by whitespace".
I know this is beginning to look like XHTML, or look like its biased
towards a rendering target of XHTML, but it's really not; there's really
no better language (pace Sebastian) for describing what textual elements
look like than CSS. Imagine this:
<encodingDesc>
....
<cssStyle xml:id="myStylesheet">
head{
font-size: 150%;
}
head[cssClass=pilcrowHead]:before{
content: "ΒΆ";
}
</cssStyle>
...
</encodingDesc>
...
<body>
...
<head cssClass="pilcrowHead">A heading</head>
...
</body>
The content of <cssStyle> would be described as any valid CSS code, and
I THINK (although I haven't tested this) that it should be possible to
add this processing instruction:
<?xml-stylesheet href="#myStylesheet" type="text/css"?>
to the top of the file, and get browsers to render all the elements of
the stylesheet they happen to support -- a cheap-and-cheerful readable
view of the text.
@rend could be used instead of @cssClass, but @cssClass could be defined
for precisely this purpose rather than being a general-purpose attribute
like @[log in to unmask]
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Cheers,
Martin
Martin Holmes wrote:
> Hi Lou,
>
> Lou Burnard wrote:
>> Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> I'm beginning to wonder if it would be useful simply to allow a CSS
>>> stylesheet to be incorporated into a TEI file in a standardized manner.
>>>
>> This was certainly the intent behind the work done in P5 concerning the
>> @rendition element/attribute.
>
> Ah -- I hadn't grasped this from the element definition. It shows this
> example:
>
> <tagsDecl>
> <rendition xml:id="r-center" scheme="css">text-align: center;</rendition>
> <rendition xml:id="r-small" scheme="css">font-size:
> small;</rendition>
> <rendition xml:id="r-large" scheme="css">font-size: large;</rendition>
> </tagsDecl>
>
> where <rendition> seems to represent a single class, rather than a whole
> stylesheet.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
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