Re: Org-mode version 5.13

[Mike Newman <mike@newmanfamily.me.uk>]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:30:29 +0100
Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
> 
> >     - The table of context is wrapped into a div with a class
> >       "table-of-contents".
> 
> This should be "id", not "class", since there is only one instance of
> the table of contents - fixed in the proposed patch.

I think that class is the right thing here.  We are saying that this is
a "table-of-contents" rather than this is the "table-of-contents".  I
believe at present there is no mechanism to give more than one table of
contents, but someone, sometime might want tables of contents for
individual sections of a document.

> 
> >     - The outline structure is embedded in <div> elements with
> >       classes "outline-1", "outline-2" etc.
> 
> Classes are ok here.
> 

This appears to be logical, but is in fact (I think) redundant.  We can
specify the style to applied at different levels without using
class attributes.  For example:

   div { background-color: lightgray}
   div > div { background-color: peachpuff}
   div > div > div { background-color: green}
   
shows how different styling can be applied to level 1, level 2 and
level 3 (and above).

I think this has advantages (e.g. inheritance of unspecified
characteristics from higher levels) and leaves the class attribute free
to represent styling that is independent of the structure.

-- 
Mike