Screenshot of Julius Caesar

A typical semi-customised display of a text-based SGML document. (NOTE: This markup does not use attributes). There are additional notes below the picture
screenshot of costwish for Julius Caesar
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Notes

Some general features of the display are:

Four document windows are visible:

Table of contents

This is the large window on the left and contains a tree of elements and their nested subelements. The document root is PLAY which contains TITLE, FM, PERSONAE, SCNDESCR, PLAYSUBT and ACT. (This is a cutdown version with only ACT I and SCENE I). The default display depth was 2 so that after reading the document, only these were visible. However the reader (me) has opened the hidden subtrees of ACT (by clicking on the '+'). Act contains TITLE and SCENE. Clicking on SCENE shows it contains TITLE, some STAGEDIR and many SPEECHes.

PERSONAE

I have written a specific routine for this which translates PERSONAE and all its descendants into nested HTML lists. This display is with html_library. (There is a list of two tribunes).

SCENE

Again I have written a simple routine to translate everything under SCENE into HTML. This can be switched on/off with the PLAY menu - if off, a SCENE displays as a tree of descendants. Notice the simple formatting for the SPEAKERS.

TITLE

There is no special routine for TITLE. The window shows that its content is SCENE I. Rome. A street.

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Peter Murray-Rust
April 1996