Re: Recent updates to ReSpec2

Yes, I noticed the problem with Pre blocks, otherwise it works just fine. There is a latent bug in my port though: the Diffmark button only works the first time save options are brought up, afterwards it's silently ignored until you do a refresh.

Next thought is to parse the tr.rdf<http://www.w3.org/2002/01/tr-automation/tr.rdf> W3C bibliography feed to make bibliographic references more dynamic. Don't you think there should be an RDFa version of the list? Then, we could just include it and process within the DOM, rather than loading external refs. Unfortunately, this is just limited to W3C publications, but a similar feed could be made from other organizations, such as IETF (probably have to scrape http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index2.html to create an RDF version). ReSpec could allow the configuration of alternate reference feeds expressed using the W3C Process model, or some equivalent.

On the RDFa track, ReSpec could embed the RDF bibliographic information in the credits and bibliographic references (cites?), to allow the documents to be self-describing. In this case, you'd just need a comprehensive list of TR URIs, which could just be traversed to extract bibliographic definitions and references.

Gregg

On May 30, 2010, at 5:22 AM, Shane McCarron wrote:

Nice work!  Does the diff tool work okay for you?  I haven't really had any feedback on it.  I know that it seems to have trouble with <pre> blocks, and I am not yet sure why.

On 5/29/2010 7:38 PM, Gregg Kellogg wrote:
I've checked in a couple of the features to ReSpec2 I mentioned previously:


 *   Generation of Figure Captions,
 *   References to figures, optionally using the figure number and title,
 *   A "Table of Figures",
 *   References to sections, optionally using the section number and title,
 *   Added Shane's diff tool to the save options <Shift>-<CTRL>-<ALT>-S.

I've included an excerpt from the documentation.

Gregg

6.1 Section References

A references may be made to a section<http://kellogg-assoc.com/cme_spec/documentation.html#dfn-section> using a elements with an href identifying the section id. Identified references are given the class "sec-ref". If an anchor has empty content, content will be manufactured using the number and title of the section.

Consider the following example of a reference to 6.1Section References<http://kellogg-assoc.com/cme_spec/documentation.html#section-references>.

<a href='#section-references'></a>

will result in the following

<a class='sec-ref' href='#section-references'>
  <span class='secno'>6.1</span>
  <span class='sec-title'>Section References</span>
</a>

7. Figures

ReSpec<http://kellogg-assoc.com/cme_spec/documentation.html#dfn-respec> supports figures by creating captions, filling in references to figures with the figure number and title are added to anchors with empty content. It also supports the creation of a LoF. Figure support is included by adding the core/figure module to the ReSpec configuration.

7.1 Captions

Mark a Figure by giving the element a class of "figure". ReSpec will look for a relevant title and create a caption following the figure accordingly. The caption title is determined by looking for attributes in the following order:

 1.  the title attribute of the matched element
 2.  the alt attribute of the matched element, if it is an img
 3.  the first title attribute of a descendant element
 4.  the alt attribute of a descendant img

A caption is created in a p element with class "caption". If the caption does not have an id attribute, one is manufactured using logic equivalent to definition<http://kellogg-assoc.com/cme_spec/documentation.html#dfn-definition>. The element is located relative to the matched element using the following rules:

 1.  If the matched element is a div, the caption is appended to the element content.
 2.  If the matched element is an img, the element is wrapped in a div with class "figure" and the caption is added to the div
 3.  Otherwise, the caption element is inserted after the matched element

<img class="figure" href="foo.png" title="Foo"/>

1Caption Example

results in the following:

<div class="figure">
  <img class="figure" href="foo.png" title="Foo"/>
  <p class="caption"><span class="figno">1</span>Foo</p>
</div>

2Caption Result

Note that p.caption>span.figno may be styled to include contextual text such as "Figure" and trailing whitespace or punctuation.

7.2 Figure References

References to figures are made using a elements with an href identifying the figure id. Identified references are given the class "fig-ref". If an anchor has empty content, content will be manufactured using the figure number and title of the image.

Consider the following example of a reference to 1Caption Example<http://kellogg-assoc.com/cme_spec/documentation.html#fig1>.

<a href='#fig-foo'></a>

3Figure reference example

will result in the following

<a class='fig-ref' href='#fig-foo'>
  <span class='figno'>1</span>
  <span class='fig-title'>Foo</span>
</a>

4Figure reference result

7.3 Table of Figures

If a section with an id of "tof" is found, the content of the section will be replaced with a generated ToC, for example:

Table of Figures

 1.  1Caption Example<http://kellogg-assoc.com/cme_spec/documentation.html#fig1>
 2.  2Caption Result<http://kellogg-assoc.com/cme_spec/documentation.html#fig-caption-result>
 3.  3Figure reference example<http://kellogg-assoc.com/cme_spec/documentation.html#fig-figure-reference-example>
 4.  4Figure reference result<http://kellogg-assoc.com/cme_spec/documentation.html#fig-figure-reference-result>

Gregg



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