Re: Shortened titles in OMFs and Yelp

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 07:20, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 06:29, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> [snip
> > 
> > Just ripping out GNOME and Manual will probably make some title's look
> > totally b0rked. I think it has to be handled by both the OMF _and_ Yelp.
> > Also, Yelp doesn't only show GNOME documents.
> >  
> 
> I agree. Never allow a program to transform  human writen text (unless
> the text follows  strict rules, which titles do not) - you are going  to
> get junk.  
> 
> > So, the information must exist in the OMF so that it can be accessible
> > from Yelp. It would be nice if the OMF could contain a <short-title/> or
> > something like that.
> > 
> > If it is found Yelp uses that instead and otherwise uses the <title/>. 
> 
> This is the way LaTeX works - it has \title which allows for optional
> argument:
> \title[A short title (optional)]{The full title, which may be
> very-very-very long}
> 
> If people do not like the idea of adding new elements to OMF, we could
> just add an attribute to title in OMF:
> 
> <title>The full title, which may be very-very-very long<title>
> <title role="short">A short title</title>
> 
> 

This seems closest to a solution that meets everyone's concerns. I'd
suggest a slight variant:

<title short="Short Title">A Very Much Longer Title With Many
Words</title>

Then when Yelp parses the title tag, it can look for a short attribute
and render that if present. If not, it renders the full title. Any XML
wizards here able to explain whether this or Sasha's above example with
two title tags is preferable?

Cheers,
John
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