Content Last Modified on January 20, 2007, at 03:29 AM CST

In the Udanax Green design (and presumably in the Gold design as well) links are used to indicate all of the formatting instead of inline markup. The link type tumbler(s) of a link indicates how the link should be interpreted by the front-end. Unfortunately assigning functionality to link types was never formally done except in the most superficial way.

If we are going to build real interoperable xanalogical systems using the Udanax design, we are going to need to come up with a basic set of link type identifiers for both linking and formatting. Udanax Green's documentation has the following set predefined"

Link Type Tumbler Comment jump 1.1.0.1.0.2.0.2.1 From Udanax Green quote 1.1.0.1.0.2.0.2.2 From Udanax Green footnote 1.1.0.1.0.2.0.2.3 From Udanax Green marginal note 1.1.0.1.0.2.0.2.4 From Udanax Green

This is the list of proposed link types listed in [LM 93.1] on pages 4/52 to 4/55:

Link Type Tumbler Comment Title not determined Metalinks Author not determined Metalinks Doc-Supercedes not determined Metalinks Correction not determined Text Link Comment not determined Text Link Counterpart not determined Text Link Translation not determined Text Link Heading not determined Text Link Paragraph not determined Text Link Quote-Link not determined Text Link Footnote not determined Text Link Layout not determined Text Link Vanilla Jump not determined Hypertext Modal Jump not determined Hypertext Expansion not determined Hypertext Citation not determined Literary Link Alt-Version not determined Literary Link Comment-Doc not determined Literary Link Certification not determined Literary Link Mail not determined Literary Link

Formatting, layout and typography issues are glossed over, however it is clear to me (JohnDougan) that making a reasonable set of formatting links is important for initial acceptance.

Initially I propose that we use a basic formatting that corresponds roughly to the functionality found in wiki's and in HTML without CSS or frames. At the very least basic text transformation should be provided:

Link Type Tumbler Comment Italics not determined Proposed Boldface not determined Proposed Underline not determined Proposed Text-Size not determined Proposed Paragraph not determined Proposed Heading not determined Proposed

Later we could expand the basic set to the point where the CSS level of rendering functionality.