RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Feedback Request/Request to Continue W ork of Documents Subcommittee

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Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Feedback Request/Request to Continue W ork of Documents Subcommittee

From: "Winters, Roger" <>

To: "'Bergeron, Donald L. (LNG-DAY)'" <>, 'Dallas Powell' <>, John Messing <>

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:36:00 -0700

Title: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Feedback Request/Request to Continue W ork of Documents Subcommittee

I am someone who's formatted and set up a zillion documents intended for others to receive electronically and display on their own equipment, and, from my perspective, paragraph IDs have a great deal of appeal for referencing purposes. Some other points about using paragraph IDs as reference points:

Even though it is the intention of the author of a document that lines consistently break at the same word, that page breaks occur exactly for everyone, and that line numbering be as predictable as Chapter and Verse in scriptures, it is fallible word processors who set up the actual pages. 

Inserted graphics, printing with "squeeze" or "shrink" features on (resulting in fonts that are fractional, e.g., 9.5), having different fonts sharing the same name, printers with different capabilities, and so on -- all such things can prevent documents being exactly the same when displayed by different people on different equipment. 

Let's also remember the person with a visual impairment who may need to display a document with a larger font. The person may not have access to equipment to magnify the image of the document, keeping it in its original, smaller font, in order to preserve line numbering, etc.  A paragraph that is displayed in a much larger font (or that has been translated to a different language!) would carry with it the same paragraph ID no matter what is being done by the recipient when viewing the document. 

Roger Winters