> Group-level declarations are thus just convenience methods and should
> not have a different semantics.
Right. I also think that additional content declared at a more specific
position should override content declared on a less specific position.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmanuel Pietriga" <Emmanuel.Pietriga_at_lri.fr>
To: <fresnel-dev_at_simile.mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: fresnel:*Format
> Ryan Lee wrote:
>
>>>> 3. Ordering / conflict:
>>>>
>>>> - Consider formats dealing with children to be a frame outside
>>>> of the box, not interfering with the actual box. E.g., an
>>>> allPropertyFormat on a resource will place its content
>>>> 'outside'
>>>> of every property, and if any property has further specific
>>>> directives from a Format, those contents go inside the
>>>> allPropertyFormat frame. The two do not influence one another.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I like this idea of having one more box. In my mind,
>>> all*Format and group-level declarations are just a convenient way of
>>> declaring formatting properties that apply to many things once and for
>>> all.
>>
>>
>> Without calling it a box, I suppose my proposal is that these things be
>> additive instead of conflicting directives. The order of addition
>> relies on the scope of the directive. And in practice, I think the
>> content* strings will appear on the output as one element, not a set of
>> nested boxes.
>
> My concern is not really about boxes. It's about the scope of these
> declarations. I consider them to do the same thing. The only difference is
> that those declared at the group level apply to all formats that belong to
> the group, even if a format by itself does not declare them. Group-level
> declarations are thus just convenience methods and should not have a
> different semantics.
>
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