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style-detail Styling Detail
Additional formatting information for lists and named styles. This attribute names
the prefix character for a bulleted list or adds information to the @style attribute for a <styled-content> element.
Usage/Remarks
Bulleted List Style
If the @list-type names a bulleted style (“@list-type="bullet"”), the @style-detail attribute may be used to name the preferred prefix character such as “dash”, “hollow-bullet”, or “square”. If no @style-detail is given, the processing system will choose the bullet character.
The NISO STS standard neither establishes nor suggests values for this use of the
@style-detail attribute, but this capability was requested to add explicit dashed lists and symbol
lists to standards.
When the @style-detail attribute sets the prefix character for a bulleted list, it is merely replacing the
display-system chosen prefix character. Therefore use of Styling Detail does not change the interaction with Prefix Word (For a List Item). (See Prefix Word (For a List Item) for details.)
Note: An explicit <label> that is part of a list item always takes precedence over the @list-type or @style-detail attributes.
Kenten and Similar Markup
For some highlighting styles, three pieces of style information are most useful: the
style name or style class, the style type (human readable), and further specific information
concerning the style, which is recorded in this Styling Detail attribute.
Being able to indicate three separate styling-related specifications is particularly
useful in Japanese, where authors typically use emphasizing marks (dots or sesamis),
called “Kenten”, which are associated with individual Japanese characters as dots
above, dots beside, or similar typographic construction. Many languages (Japanese,
Korean, Thai, Chinese, Arabic, Hungarian, and Armenian, to name but a few) use stress
marks and similar typographic conventions (such as dots or sesamis) in the same way
that English (as one example) uses <bold> or <italic> emphasis.
Here are some Japanese examples illustrating how the Styling Detail attribute might be used to modify the style (@style-type):
| style-type | style-detail values |
|---|---|
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dot
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sesami (sesame)
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circle
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hatched
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triangle
|
|
OPTIONAL on elements: <list>, <styled-content>
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Text, numbers, or special characters | 1) Names a prefix character for bulleted list items (<list list-type="bullet">), for example a dash prefix character (<list list-type="bullet" style-detail="dash">). 2) Provides additional styling information about a display style (<styled-content>), for example, a sub-style can distinguish between dots or sesamis in <styled-content>, by declaring some to be “hollow” dots and some to be “solid” or filled dots. |
| Restriction | @style-detail is an optional attribute; there is no default. |
Tagged Samples
Provide bullet-style for a bulleted list
...
<p>... To assist standards developers to define accessibility
requirements and recommendations, the Guide presents:
<list list-type="bullet" style-detail="dash">
<list-item>
<p>a summary of current terminology relating to accessibility;</p></list-item>
<list-item>
<p>issues to consider in support of accessibility in the standards
development process;</p></list-item>
<list-item>
<p>a set of accessibility goals (used to identify user accessibility
needs);</p></list-item>
<list-item>
<p>descriptions of (and design considerations for) human abilities
and characteristics;</p></list-item>
<list-item>
<p>strategies for addressing user accessibility needs and design
considerations in standards.</p></list-item>
</list>
</p>
...A non-standard bullet character
...
<p>The Tag Suite is the complete set of elements and attributes
described in the standard. Along with these descriptions, the
standard includes two discrete standards models or Tag Sets:
<list list-type="bullet" style-detail="symbol">
<list-item>
<p>The Interchange Tag Set (in MathML 2.0 and MathML 3.0
variants)</p></list-item>
<list-item>
<p>The Extended Tag Set (in MathML 2.0 and MathML 3.0
variants)</p></list-item>
</list>
</p>
...Different dot styles are used as emphasis in many non-western languages.
...
<p><styled-content
specific-use="emphasis"
style-type="dot"
style-detail="open"
toggle="no">あいうえお</styled-content> ...</p>
...