Posted by jojo on 07/24/06 14:56

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

>> I have found myself forced towards pre text for verse, it makes
>> coying / pasting Greek text very easy and preserves the line breaks
>> for the verse without 100 br per page. The English translation is
>> treated the same only to be parallel.
>
> I wonder why you have rejected the most obvious structural approach,
> which would probably remove some of your problems: using a table with
> two columns, with one verse as one row. Simple preprocessing should take
> care of converting texts into such a format

I suppose most people here are glad, that Andrew didn't use a table. The
reason: tables are not a layout object, they are for displaying tabular
data. In HTML 4.01 you shouldn't use any element for different purpose
than it's semantic meaning. For layout use CSS.

> That way, the columns would take their natural widths in most
> situations. To make things work in very narrow windows as well, you
> could use a little CSS so that if a table cell's content is divided into
> two lines, it appears with some indentation on the second (and any
> subsequent) line, to indicate continuation of a verse.
>

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