<div dir="ltr">I think this is a bad idea. Whatever target format / platform will display the MEI should be able to access a basic text-styling system that can target, if not the MEI directly, at least a target output. <div><br></div><div>Text encoding in MEI is already compromised, so we either continue being careless in that matter, or we can avoid making it worse.</div><div><br></div><div>Another approach would be adopting a system that would make it easy to embed styling, such as TEI's @<a href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-att.global.rendition.html#tei_att.rendition">rendition</a> (and <<a href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-rendition.html">rendition</a>>). In this way you can have the cake and eat it too.</div><div><br></div><div>Raff</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Roland, Perry D. (pdr4h) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pdr4h@eservices.virginia.edu" target="_blank">pdr4h@eservices.virginia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Putting the mark in the markup --<br>
<br>
[Unicode for bullet] item 1<br>
[Unicode for bullet] item 2<br>
etc.<br>
<br>
denies the opportunity to treat the bullet separately from the item content. Your suggested approach mixes what is presentational with actual content. That's generally a bad idea.<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: mei-l [mailto:<a href="mailto:mei-l-bounces@lists.uni-paderborn.de">mei-l-bounces@lists.uni-paderborn.de</a>] On Behalf Of<br>
> Johannes Kepper<br>
> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 4:09 PM<br>
> To: Music Encoding Initiative<br>
> Subject: Re: [MEI-L] list-related changes<br>
><br>
> I'm sorry to say, but I see no need to include that in MEI. If I want to be<br>
> descriptive, I can include the mark in the encoding itself. But of course you're<br>
> free to convince me and anyone else who's not convinced yet :-)<br>
><br>
> jo<br>
><br>
> Am 09.11.2015 um 22:03 schrieb Roland, Perry D. (pdr4h)<br>
> <<a href="mailto:pdr4h@eservices.virginia.edu">pdr4h@eservices.virginia.edu</a>>:<br>
><br>
> ><br>
> > I'd like to make it easier to control the formatting of lists from within the<br>
> document markup rather than pushing it off entirely to CSS or othe, external<br>
> formatting procedures.<br>
> ><br>
> > To this end, I plan to remove the current @form attribute and create a new<br>
> att.listrend attribute class containing @mark and @order attributes --<br>
> ><br>
> > <attList><br>
> > <attDef ident="mark" usage="opt"><br>
> > <desc>Contains the character string (usually a single character, such as a<br>
> bullet,<br>
> > box, dash, etc.) that precedes each item in the list.</desc><br>
> > <datatype><br>
> > <rng:data type="string"/><br>
> > </datatype><br>
> > </attDef><br>
> > <attDef ident="order" usage="opt"><br>
> > <desc>Indicates the system used to generate the character string (usually<br>
> a single<br>
> > character) that precedes items in an ordered list.</desc><br>
> > <datatype><br>
> > <rng:data type="NMTOKEN"/><br>
> > </datatype><br>
> > <valList type="semi"><br>
> > <valItem ident="alphalower"><br>
> > <desc>Lower case letters.</desc><br>
> > </valItem><br>
> > <valItem ident="alphaupper"><br>
> > <desc>Upper case letters.</desc><br>
> > </valItem><br>
> > <valItem ident="arabic"><br>
> > <desc>Arabic numerals.</desc><br>
> > </valItem><br>
> > <valItem ident="romanlower"><br>
> > <desc>Lower case Roman numerals.</desc><br>
> > </valItem><br>
> > <valItem ident="romanupper"><br>
> > <desc>Upper case Roman numerals.</desc><br>
> > </valItem><br>
> > </valList><br>
> > </attDef><br>
> > </attList><br>
> ><br>
> > Any list without one of these attributes (a list cannot have both) should be<br>
> assumed to be "simple"; that is, without any mark or order. This is NOT<br>
> procedural markup, just somewhat more descriptive than what used to be<br>
> allowed. J<br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > p.<br>
> > ________________________________<br>
> > Perry Roland<br>
> > University of Virginia<br>
> > P. O. Box 400874<br>
> > Charlottesville, VA, 22904<br>
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> > pdr4h (at) virginia (dot) edu<br>
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