RE: Timed Text Authoring Format - Distribution Format Exchange Pr ofile (DFXP)

Glenn, et al,

The DXFP specification includes support for styling, both in-line and
out-of-line styling.
However it does not support a class based styling model.

In subtitling, styles are most often associated with changes in the text
'role' (e.g. dialogue differs in presentation from music) or 'speaker' (Joe
- red, Frank - blue).

Could a mechanism be added to support this?

E.g. This might be represented in DXFP by utilising a class based style
mechanism that was sensitive to ttm:role and ttm:agent. Thus:

<style id="s1" style tts:color="white" tts:fontFamily="monospace-serif"/>
<style id="intro" style="s1" tts:fontSize="4%"/>
<style id="documentary" style="s1" tts:fontSize="10%"
tts:fontFamily="sans-serif"/>
<style id="music" ttm:role="music" tts:fontStyle="oblique"/>
<style id="joe" ttm:agent="joe" tts:color="red"/>

<div style="intro">
<!-- all text 4% high -->
<!-- all text monospace-serif -->
<p ttm:role="music">Quiet Violin music</p>
</div>
<div style="documentary">
<!-- all text 5% high -->
<!-- all text sans-serif -->
<p>White Large sans-serif</p>
<p ttm:role="music">White Oblique Large sans-serif</p>
<p ttm:agent="joe">Red Large sans-serif</p>
</div>

the ttm:role and ttm:agent attributes could be considered as implicitly
adding inline style attribute(s) to their container....

regards

John Birch
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn A. Adams [mailto:gadams@xfsi.com]
Sent: 14 March 2005 16:51
To: public-tt@w3.org
Subject: Timed Text Authoring Format - Distribution Format Exchange
Profile (DFXP)




A new update of the Timed Text Authoring Format 1.0 - Distribution
Format Exchange Profile (DFXP), is now available at [1]:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20050314/

The TT WG solicits your comments on this new draft as soon as possible,
as a very rapid turn-around is expected in order to publish a first Last
Call (LC) draft.

Please sent comments either to this list or, if you prefer privacy, to
me directly.

Regards,
Glenn Adams