Re: [office] FO properties

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Michael,

Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> On 22.12.08 14:29, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>
>>>
>> OK, but organizationally I understood your suggestion to be:
>>
>> -- Gather all formatting attributes (SVG, FO, style:*) into a single 
>> chapter (separate from current chapter 18)
>
> Yes, this is what I suggest. However, there are formatting property 
> attributes from other namespaces than the above, and there are a few 
> attributes in the style namespace which are not formatting properties.
>
OK, so all formatting properties, in the enumerated namespaces or not go 
into the formatting chapter. I don't remember the attributes in the 
style namespace that are not formatting properties but we can sort that 
out when deciding on the content of that chapter.
>>
>>  From what you say above, are you suggesting that we need separate 
>> treatment of all formatting elements and their children?
>
> If the <style:*-properties> elements are what you call formatting 
> elements, then that's correct.
>
Yes, well, that was the terminology you suggested.
>
>>
>> Not disagreeing, just trying to understand the extent of your 
>> observation.
>>
>> Such that given the current structure the text would have the 
>> following form (roughly speaking):
>>
>> (Each of the following sections containing chapters)
>>
>> Structural Elements
>>
>> Structural Attributes
>>
>> Formatting Elements
>>
>> Formatting Attributes
>
> I'm not sure if you consider these to be single chapters or not. I 
> think we may keep the current structure as is, except that
>
> - we may rename chapter 16 "Formatting Properties" to "Formatting 
> Property Elements"
> - we split chapter 18 into "Formatting Property Attributes" and 
> "Structural Attributes"
>
> We may further want to move chapter 17 Data Types to the end, but 
> that's not related to the formatting property topic.
>
That sounds plausible to me. I would prefer to split chapter 18 into 
separate chapters simply to avoid deeper subsections.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

> Best regards
>
> Michael
>

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Patrick Durusau
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Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
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