Re: Problem compiling conglomerate-0.7.12pre1.tar.gz

Roberto Rosselli Del Turco <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:36:04 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.editors.conglomerate.general
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Il dom, 2004-02-15 alle 17:11, Dave Malcolm ha scritto:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 18:14, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
> > Il gio, 2004-02-12 alle 17:09, Dave Malcolm ha scritto:
>  
> > > The color attribute is horribly broken; I intend to remove it. 
> > > Conglomerate ignores it and uses a bizarre hashing algorithm based on
> > > the characters in the element's name.  Sorry about that.
> > 
> > Hmm, I hope the removal is only temporary because that's a nice feature.
> > Can't you just remove the "bizarre hashing algorithm" code and use a
> > more standard notation? (as if I knew what I'm talking about ... :)
> 
> I could do, but "under protest" :-)

Always better than a plain "Forget it" ;o)

> I'm not convinced that specifying colours is a good thing.  Conglomerate
> ought to work with any GTK theme, and putting a load of colour values
> into the xds files is likely to break that.
> 
> So perhaps what we need is a way to specify colours in an "indirect"
> way.  Conglomerate could have a number of colours stored in a themable
> location somewhere, and the xds files could refer to these.

That would be just as useful, and even easier to handle.

> Can you give some ideas on what you'd use the colours for?  If you like
> we'll make the "color" attribute work so that you can experiment.

Well, IMHO colours can be very useful in distinguishing structural parts
of a document. For instance, a normal TEI document has a longish header
which contains all sort of metadata: it would be nice to set it apart
using a different colour. Same for <div>s, or lists, or groups of verses
(<lg>s); OTOH some elements are so broad and all-encompassing (<text>,
<body>) that I don't know if it's worthwhile to specify a different
colour (could be left to the user, of course).

That's because in my view Conglomerate is a *structure* centered XML
editor (if you want I can elaborate on this), so every feature that
helps in defining and visualizing structure is useful.

Ciao

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