Re: Considering High Level Interlinear Text Requirements

A simple search for "interlinear" on twitter easily identifies several
other high level requirements:

* Single line interlinear text below base:
   https://twitter.com/jenningsjaxfl/status/1083466803865665537

* Multiline interlinear text below base:
  https://www.olivetree.com/blog/interlinear-bibles-app/
  (on twitter: https://twitter.com/OliveTreeBible/status/1078780132695912449
)

* Multiline interlinear text above base:
  https://twitter.com/red_loeb/status/1068969383559598081
  https://twitter.com/DirkSchoenaers/status/1037073067581890560

These requirements would be orthogonal to the anchoring requirements of the
previous mail.  Zaima is another "multiline interlinear text above base"
use case.  Questions that arise with multiple IL lines:

  * are the multiple IL lines a "group" (interdependent), independent, or
both?
  * are all IL lines anchored to base text?  or may an IL line be anchored
to another IL line?



On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 11:01 AM Daniel Yacob <yacob@geez.org> wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
> At this point there may be only two of on the mail list.  Though more have
> expressed interest in enhancing interlinear text support in w3c standards,
> there is likely a lack of awareness that the group has formed -so get the
> word out :-)
>
> I thought I would start a conversation on very high level requirements for
> interlinear text as it relates to base text.  From observation, interlinear
> text has at least two alignment associations:
>
> 1) Anchored start:  The interlinear text is "anchored" or "bound" to one
> or more contiguous letters in the base text.  The interlinear text aligns
> at the anchor point and continues to its end, which may span one or more
> base lines.
>
> 2) Anchored start and end: The start and end points of interlinear text
> are each anchored to one or more contiguous letters in the base text. The
> "margins" of the IL text are within the start and end anchors.  Alignment
> (left, right, center) and letter distribution of the IL text is also
> specified (e.g. CSS ruby-align attribute values).
>
> These definitions should be valid for both RTL and LTR text.  Ruby and
> Zaima interlinear text would fall under the "Anchored start and end"
> category.  Ruby, and even more so Zaima, annotation practices are what I am
> most familiar with -and little else.  The "Anchored start" (1), with no
> fixed end point I gather is essential to other interlinear use cases.
>
> Thoughts? Is there another high level requirement?  Is interlinear text
> ever fully independent of the content of the base text?
>
> cheers,
>
> -Daniel
>
>