Re: Supporting Chant Notation Under Interlinear Text Layout

Glenn,

Can you please direct your comments to Daniel Yacob <yacob@geez.org> who is
the person proposing this group?  The Music Notation Community Group was
merely asked to support the creation of Daniel's proposed group, we're not
actvely involved in defining it.

Thank you.

.            .       .    .  . ...Joe

Joe Berkovitz


On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+smufl@g.nevcal.com>
wrote:

> On 5/11/2018 7:38 AM, Daniel Yacob wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm writing to alert people here to a new incubator group created to
>> collect and address requirements for "Interlinear Text Layout".
>>
>> I came into the problem of laying out interlinear text when trying to
>> present the Ethiopic Zaima chant notation under available HTML markup.  I
>> thought people in this group may have interest or expertise in similar
>> traditions with staffless chant notation (Znamenny, Syric, Byzantine,
>> Hebrew, etc).  If so, I encourage you to please support the creation of the
>> Interlinear Layout Group here:
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/#itlcg
>>
>> A new group is proposed following the recommendation of W3C experts
>> because interlinear text layout is important to a broad spectrum of
>> manuscript practices such as annotation, multilingual annotation in
>> particular, and translation.
>>
>> FWIW, my own trials with CSS and HTML work arounds for presenting Zaima
>> are available at the link below.  Unfortunately the CSS tricks needed to
>> get the presentation right (or nearly so) are very sensitive to browser
>> version. The pages work best with Chrome version 61 or later (though not
>> validated recently):
>>
>> http://w3c.github.io/elreq/zaima/
>>
>> thank you,
>>
>> -Daniel
>>
>
> How is what you need different from what is described here?
>
> https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c
> d=7&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwitspiu_v3aAhUMHHwKHVIuAjIQFgh2
> MAY&url=https%3A%2F%2Fw3c.github.io%2Ftypography%2F&usg=
> AOvVaw2tR3AWyJskdtvSIr_nEQ7z
>
> Or would the proposed community group above be working to extend the above
> to additional use cases?
>
>