Re: Subtitle/caption styling + TTML + CSS

On Thursday 2016-12-22 21:13 +0000, Pierre-Anthony Lemieux wrote:
> Hi fantasai,
> 
> > between the two, so such a mapping would most
> > definitely not be "straightforward".
> 
> My experience with imscJS has been that the mapping from TTML to CSS was
> straightforward with the exception of two features that were not defined in
> CSS but deemed important to captions: linePadding and multiRowAlign.
> 
> Did you have other examples in mind?

I think things are very different if you're trying to create an
implementation that fully conforms to the specification rather than
an implementation that covers the features in the specification but
gets wrong the large number of detailed differences between these
technologies.

-David

> 
> Best,
> 
> -- Pierre
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:49 PM fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 12/12/2016 12:04 AM, Pierre-Anthony Lemieux wrote:
> >
> > >
> >
> > > TTML is based on XSL, which is based on CSS, and so the mapping has
> >
> > > been straightforward
> >
> >
> >
> > XSL is very loosely "based" on CSS, and there is much divergence
> >
> > between the two, so such a mapping would most definitely not be
> >
> > "straightforward".
> >
> >
> >
> > ~fantasai
> >
> >

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