[projectaon] Re: Footnotes Redux--Revenge of the Deathlord

On Friday 10 February 2012, Jonathan Blake wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Simon Osborne 
<outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > One thing I've noticed is how intrusive the ERRTAG comments are. I
> > know that they were once very helpful in editing, but I think they
> > have outlived their usefulness. I'd like, if it's acceptable to
> > the other editors, to go ahead and remove them all from 17tdoi as
> > an experiment. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
> 
> I understand what you mean, but I admit that I have mixed feelings. I
> had hoped that we could use them to eventually tie changes back to
> the section and in some vaguely defined way that would allow us to
> automatically recreate the original text. We would still have a lot
> of work to do even if we keep the ERRTAG comments, but they might
> speed up the work. In balance, if it's interfering with our current
> work, it's hard to justify keeping them around for the sake of
> something we might do sometime.

If we want to make the original text available optionally sometime in 
the future then it might be easier to introduce a new tag which supports 
multiple alternative texts. For the illustrations we are already doing 
something similar.

With a bit of HTML5 it would even be possible to switch on-the-fly 
between the different variations. But we should probably first publish 
all books before we go crazy with cool features. :-)


Regards,
Ingo

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