I am interested in creating a tag function that could accept as one of its
attributes, a complete txexpr; this txexpr could contain a citation for the
tagged material, or could offer a translation into another language. For
instance, providing source and language information for an epigraph:
◊epigraph[#:lang "gr" #:source (span "Aristotle, " ◊em{De Anima}" Book 1,
Chapter 4, 408b.18."]{ὁ δὲ νοῦς ἴσως θειότερόν τι καὶ ἀπαθές ἐστιν}
One could also imagine a "foreign" tag, that would allow one to include a
translation. This sort of complex information (textual citation,
translations, etc) is often not a string, but may require a full txexpr.
(The syntax in the above example, using a "span" is pretty ugly.)
With this structure, you could then convert this information into a
footnote for PDF or HTML, or discard it, etc.
Is using attributes on a tag not a good way to capture this sort of
information (I am coming to think it isn't). is there a better alternative
I should be exploring?
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