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On 6/30/06, Mike Ferrando <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Stephen Y.,
Concerning running headers for dsc content, I had the idea to
implement floats. The header area cannot be changed or added to
without disrupting the flow.

However, although this can be done to bring headings to the top of
the page (under the header area), the next problem is how to set this
information off as part of the header. The issues being spacing,
formatting (style and spacing), etc.

How can this be done in such a way that the user understands that
these are an "extended" part of the header and not part of the dsc
flow?

I was experimenting with a couple of things.

1. Keep the headings to subseries only.
2. Expect subseries/subseries
3. Use a Windows icon folder structure for this area (open folders
before the subseries name and "L" shaped icons joining the outline
structure of the extended header.

But the whole thing seemed to me to rather difficult and a regression
in the workflow. The PDF should have bookmarks active and available
for the user. When the user is at a certain page, the bookmark will
be grayed-out indicating the location in the document.

Furthermore, the page can easily be overrun with such extended
headings and result in very little room for the actual information.
One would wonder if we are loosing site of the object and goal of
moving the information into this format in the first place (forest
and trees issue).

The hard copy should really be considered as a product of the display
format, not an entity existing of itself.

Page-by-page orientation in a hard copy is a regression of the data
to a obsolete format which should be avoided at all costs.

My two cents.

Mike Ferrando
Library Technician
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
202-707-4454

--- Stephen Yearl <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> MIchelle:
>
> the Manuscripts and Archives unit at Yale has been using the
> formatting
> objects processor (FOP, http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) to
> produce PDF
> for a number of years. A very localised stylesheet converts EAD 1
> to XSL-FO
> (1.0) which is then run through FOP. FOP is only of many available
> FO-processors, and the only one I know that is free, and has a
> reasonable
> enough implementation of the FO standard that it is certainly
> usable since
> version 0.20.4 to produce PDF or rich text format, RTF for editing
> in a word
> processor. Producing barcodes, folder/box labels and such is also
> not _too_
> tricky once you understand the FO standard, but that's quite
> another story.
>
> The biggest gripe with FO 1.0 is that it is impossible (someone
> prove me
> wrong, please!) to create 'running headers' at page breaks; viz. if
> a c05
> falls at the head of a new page, list the parent C0xs unittitles to
> give a
> sense of where one is in the hierarchy. I have been told that this
> is
> possible in FO 1.1 (a candidate recommendation as of February this
> year). As
> far as I know The FO processor (XSL Formatter, version 4 ) from
> Antenna
> House is the only processor that supports 1.1.
>
> Our EAD 1 to FO 1 stylesheet, as I said, is very tuned to our
> specific tag
> usage, and so may not work well for others. That said, over the
> coming
> months Yale will overhauling its EAD implementation and, lawyers
> permitting,
> we would like to make available our stylesheets and other code
> through the
> EAD Help Pages (On which, expect an updated site in the very near
> future).
>
> Good luck,
>
> St.
>
> Stephen Yearl
> Systems Archivist
> Yale University Library::Manuscripts and Archives
>
> On 6/29/06, Michele Rothenberger < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all --
> >
> > Wondering whether anyone would care to share their method of
> getting
> > hard copy from EAD.  A style sheet within your EAD authoring
> software
> > that formats for printing?  An XSLT style sheet that produces
> HTML
> > formatted to print nicely?  or perhaps outputs PDF?  or Word?
> Something
> > daringly new and different that no one else has thought of?
> (BTW,
> > thanks to Susan Hamburger at Penn State for explaining her
> NoteTab Pro
> > approach to me a couple of weeks ago!)
> >
> > Any and all information is welcome.  Thanks in advance --
> >
> > Michele
> >
> >
> > -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-
> > Michele Rothenberger
> > Special Collections Research Center
> > Syracuse University Library
> > 222 Waverly Avenue
> > Syracuse, NY 13244
> > (315) 443-2697
> > -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-
> >
>

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