Mariage

The file validated just fine, so I uploaded it, but I noticed that since the note was placed after the end of the line-group, it didn't appear next to the word "confrèrie", which is where I assume it should go. I moved the note into the <l> tag, immediately after "confrèrie", and the note now seems to appear in the right place. Let me know if this isn't what you want.

At the same time, I noticed that the stanzas were not separated by any space, so I've added a bottom margin to stanzas in the XHTML display. Again, if this looks wrong, let me know. I'm assuming that when there are stanzas in the markup, it's because there's a physical separation between the line-groups on the page.

I've had a thought about how we might provide another way of looking at the images. If you could record each of the annotations as audio annotation, we could link each annotation to its audio file. We could then provide a multimedia presentation of each image, working through each category of annotations, zooming in on each annotation area and playing the audio for that area. I think this is quite practical, and it would be really cool. What do you think?

Checked the title bar display on IE6 and IE7, and they both show the same problem (the title is cut off halfway down, and the decorative bar below doesn't show).

Began by pruning some obsolete JavaScript code which was still there from the previous version of the layout (AssignIE6MenuHandler()). This didn't help, but it needed doing anyway.

Next, I tried commenting out the <hr id="HeaderBorder>, in case some of its oddities might be causing the problem -- we know IE can't handle <hr> tags with image content or min-height. However, that had no effect either. The problem seems to be with the CSS of the <h1> tag.

I tried removing the before and after pseudo-attributes -- again, IE doesn't support these -- but that made no difference.

Then I notices that a previous font-size declaration for <h1> set it at 190%, which was then overridden in the title bar CSS by 250%, marked !important. Thinking there might be some odd interaction between these, I commented out the first one. No effect.

Finally, I commented out the line vertical-align: middle;. That did the trick. It appears that when IE tries to align text to the middle, it projects it below the bottom of its bounding box, cutting it off half-way. The removal of that line didn't seem to make any difference to other browsers; I tested on Firefox, Opera, Konqueror and Safari. I've left the line commented out in the CSS, with an explanation. The site now looks reasonable on IE6 and IE7, although neither of them show the fleur-de-lys emblems or the row of decorative poultry below.

While testing on Safari, I noticed that the right-side fleur-de-lys is not spaced from the text, although the CSS code that places it specifies a space before it. It appears that Safari honours a space after generated content, but not before (so the fleur-de-lys on the left of the title does have the correct space on the right of it). However, testing on WebKit and Konqueror, both of which show the correct spacing, suggests that this is a temporary glitch in Safari and will be fixed at the next update.

IE7 screws up the display of the site title (it's cut in half, and the decorative border below it is gone). Can't figure it out yet, but it must be fixed before the Nebraska presentation.

Following instructions in Claire's post today, I've set the text in the popup/thumbnail box to be left-aligned instead of justified. I've also uploaded all the changed image markup files.

...spent meeting with Claire this morning to plan how we proceed now we have the SSHRC grant.

Added notBefore and notAfter attributes to the dates of three text documents and uploaded them to the database, as well as copying them to the server archive where Claire and France work.

I'm adding this as a task because the search page needs to be updated somehow so it can display these imprecise dates. This is a bit complicated, and will need some thought, but we do need to be able to allow people to specify a date range anyway.

A recent release of P5 necessitated the re-generation of the schema for our project. I created a new schema in ROMA, and then tested all our files still validate (they do). I uploaded the new schema into all of the relevant folders on the server, so it will be available to Claire and France when they're editing.

The new schema also adds the notBefore and notAfter attributes to the <date> element, allowing us to mark up uncertain dates correctly. We'll now have to go through the existing files, looking for all instances of the precision attribute, and mark those dates up properly.

Retrieved them from the server, uploaded them into the db, and backed everything up. No time to integrate the latest translation, unfortunately -- this will have to wait till I get back after the holiday.

Two of the text XML files, reconfort_des_femmes.xml and purgatoire.xml, were not showing up in the TOC. It turned out that this was because they didn't have <biblStruct> elements in the header; instead they had old <biblFull> elements. Added <biblStruct>s.

That brought up the issue of redundancy, because these two documents as well as at least one more (fantastique_repentire.xml are from the same 19th-century anthology. We should extract the anthology data to an XInclude file.