Re: [docbook] Re: Consistent handling of all purely presentational characters such a quotes, parenthesis, square brackets, slashes

[Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>]

On 11/01/12 23:59, Norman Walsh wrote:
> > My current thinking leads me to overloading phrase element yet again
> > and doing something like:
> >
> > <phrase rend="surround_with_parenthesis">2.5<phrase
> > role="unit">in</phrase></phrase>  (or http://pastie.org/3165754 )
>
> Do you get imperial units both with and without the parenthetical
> metric equivalents? If not, I think I'd be inclined to choose
> some markup for the lengths and leave the rest to styling.

Perhaps appropriate to mention the markup applied by an over-eager 
graduate student asked to encode all numbers in a historical text:

...he was hang'd, drawn and <num value="0.25">quartered</num>.

> You could go whole hog, I suppose:
>
>    <length magnitude="2.5" units="inches" system="imperial">2.5in</length>
>
> but that seems like it might be overkill :-)

There is some other kind of inch?

:-)

///Peter