Re: [docbook] DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes: 15 July 2009

[Mimil Mimil <mimilowns@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I did some research and I found interesting document about screenplays (a dialogue base interaction too) and they use the following additional informations:

- scene numbering
- scene slugs: information about the action location (setting, location, time of the day)
- scene breaks: information about the action rhythm
- scene description: information about the action environment
- dialogue: vocal direction, emotion

Everything is explained at http://www.mediachops.com/producer_chops/1_Production_Cycle/PDFs/screenplay_formatting.pdf

Maybe something to take into account for the publisher spec?

Regards,
Cédric,

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk> wrote:

On 07/20/2009 10:18 PM, Mimil Mimil wrote:

Hello,

I just have a little comment on  8.Publishing Subcommittee report ...  Scott suggests everyone read it and provide comments.

With an external view (no knowledge of publishing) I wondered what is the real motivation to have 3 distinct elements (dialogue, drama, poetry) because they seem to have the same goal "speeches" and also have the same xml definition in the spec (http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cd-01.pdf)
If the definition is the same, isn't the role attribute sufficient within a single dialogue element?
Or is it a choice made to simplify the stylesheet work as these elements really need a different printing layout?

Best regards,
Cédric,

With some (not a lot) of experience in marking up both poetry and drama, I can state
that they are quite different in some ways, particularly if certain aspects of the visual
presentation of the source is required to be captured.




regards

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