RE: TT and subtitling

There is a problem with the proposal below, which is that it
requires that the timing containment and ordering relationships
be congruous with the layout/formatting (box model) relationships;
however, in general, this is not the case. This can potentially
be handled, albeit, with a loss of generality, by flattening out
either the timing model or the formatting model, i.e., assigning
fixed times or positions to every element.

As an example, consider the case:

<ol>
  <li>Gold Winner</li>
  <li>Silver Winner</li>
  <li>Bronze Winner</li>
</ol>

vs

<seq>
  <p>Bronze Winner</p>
  <p>Silver Winner</p>
  <p>Gold Winner</p>
</seq>

The natural layout order turns out to be reverse of the natural
timing order.

Regards,
Glenn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wiltgen [mailto:lists@wiltgen.net] 
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:19 PM
> To: List EUR W3C Timed Text
> Subject: Re: TT and subtitling
> 
> 
> 
> John Glauert wrote...
> 
> > * Some semantics should be built in.
> >  - Language
> 
> Again stealing from a mature specification, here's Proposal 0.0 in two
> languages:
> 
> <switch>
>     <seq systemLanguage="en">
>         <tt:p begin="0s" dur="5s">One</tt:p>
>         <tt:p dur="10s">Two</tt:p>
>         <tt:p begin="1s" dur="5s" class="important">Three</tt:p>
>     </seq>
>     <seq systemLanguage="fr">
>         <tt:p begin="0s" dur="5s">Un</tt:p>
>         <tt:p dur="10s">Deux</tt:p>
>         <tt:p begin="1s" dur="5s">Trois</tt:p>
>     </seq>
> </switch>
> 
> This could also be done like this, I believe:
> 
> <seq>
>     <switch>
>         <tt:p begin="0s" dur="5s" systemLanguage="en">One</tt:p>
>         <tt:p begin="0s" dur="5s" systemLanguage="fr">Un</tt:p>
>     </switch>
>     <switch>
>         <tt:p dur="10s" systemLanguage="en">Two</tt:p>
>         <tt:p dur="10s" systemLanguage="fr">Deux</tt:p>
>     </switch>
>     <switch>
>         <tt:p begin="1s" dur="5s" systemLanguage="en">Three</tt:p>
>         <tt:p begin="1s" dur="5s" systemLanguage="fr">Trois</tt:p>
>     </switch>
> </seq>
> 
> > I would like to add a plea to consider non-text!
> 
> If TT is an extension of SMIL, then we get audio/video 
> integration for free.
> 
> -- Charles Wiltgen
>    <http://playbacktime.com/>
> 
>

Received on Saturday, 8 February 2003 01:06:24 UTC