RE: Layout Revision Proposal: CSS and then some

On Tuesday, November 25, 1997 7:44 AM, Nabil Layaida 
[SMTP:layaida@sol.genie.uottawa.ca] wrote:
> In the SYMM group, we had very long discussions about that issue. Your 
suggestion has been already discussed. Jin and I brought that problem to 
the discussion table. Our proposal was to give the author the mean to group 
a set of element into blocks. We proposed a comp tag which stands for 
"composite". This can be even extended to  typed blocks to make the 
document logically structured instead of temporally or spatially.
>
> We decided for the first release of SMIL not to include this feature into 
the draft. But this doesn't mean that it will not be discussed or/and 
included later. Madeus which is the tool I built to author and layout 
presentations supports this. So we are aware enough about this issue.

Hmmm...  Adding a grouping in the form of another tag doesn't quite address 
the issue.  It still is limited to temporal adjacency.  For example, using 
standard TV and newscast models, how do you denote that two particular news 
reports (probably each implemented as a <PAR> tag) are siblings in terms of 
content organization when a commercial comes between them?  For example:

<SEQ id='newscast'>
   <PAR id='report1'> . . . </PAR>
   <PAR id='report2'> . . . </PAR>
   <SEQ id='sponsors'> . . . </SEQ>
   <PAR id='report3'> . . . </PAR>
   <PAR id='report4'> . . . </PAR>
</SEQ>

Andrew n marshall
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Received on Wednesday, 26 November 1997 15:09:43 UTC