Ron,
At 01:33 PM 6/28/2005, you wrote:
> [...] the overall goal, [...] is having numbered text paragraphs.
[...] I don't see the logic or reason behind the use of a
definition list for numbered paragraphs.... The number is hardly
a term and the paragraph doesn't describe it.
No doubt, and yet as stated it is surely is a philosophical point. On the
one side, there is your argument, and its a good one. On the other hand,
any approach which works well and saves markup has its own merits and
claims. I don't know of any markup which is designed specifically for this
purpose, nor for doing screenplays, for example, and to that degree, one
must "properly misuse" the available markup elements. Likewise, in this
application, since the number is not properly part of the text, but is
added for convenience, one could argue that <p> suffers the same problem to
which you point: the number is not part of the paragraph, but <p> implies
it is. Perhaps I am a troglodyte, but in my cave we get points for being
utilitarian.
You could easily achieve the same thing by simply marking up the paragraphs
as <p>'s and using a <span> with an assigned class to style each number.
Better yet, designate each number as a header (<h2>, <h3>, whatever) and
follow it with the paragraph. I think the header/paragraph would make the
most sense in a non-visual way.
As regards the second, some of the documents have a hundred or more
paragraphs, and as such, there could not be a one-for-one correspondence
between <h1>...<h[x]> and that many paragraphs, unless I have misunderstood
your thought...
As regards the second approach, it may have use and merit, but its not
clear to me how to produce a paragraph with a hanging indent, so that one
has what in essence has two columns where one is dedicated to numbering,
and the other is dedicated to text, which scales well across a large range
of font sizes, and which minimizes markup:
==============================================
| 1. | This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
| | This is some text. This is some text. This is some text.
| | This is some text. This is some text. This is.
| 2. | This is different text. This is different text. This is different
| | text. This is different text. This is different text. This is dif-
| | ferent text. This is different text. This is different text. This.
==============================================
...etc.
Thanks for your response.
d.
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