ADDITIONS   AND   REVISIONS  
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 In Southern Late Lent
 On 56.52.7 TRINPsite comprises 593 public files, of which approximately 476
 different or 'unique' ones: 95 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 14 *.html, 238 *.HTM,
 24 *Txt.htm, 6 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 66 picture files and 28
 sound files. 
 In the course of this month the whole of chapter 5 of the Book of Fundamentals,
 Life and Nonlife, became available by means of
 site-internal links after the addition of the second and third divisions:
 The Lives of Ecosystems and Nonpersonal Living  Beings and Causing, Risking or Allowing the
 Death of Others. Other additions from the Model
 of Neutral-Inclusivity were the first two sections of the third division,
 Other Predicates from a Catenical Perspective,
 of the second chapter of the Book of Instruments:
 Nondeterminative predicates and
 Catenality and noncatenality. The latter
 section is especially important because of the concept of the 'happiness-catenal' used
 throughout the Model.
 
 Two old basic files, Short notes and
 Potential conflicts between duties,     underwent the change from a nongraphic *Txt.htm to a graphic *.HTM file. Similarly,
 the old nodal file The DNI, the Adherent and
 Conflicting Duties was converted from an *.html text file to a graphic *.htm
 file. 
 Because of a sudden rise in popularity at the end of the year, the appearance
 of the New Year card was enhanced.
 Strictly speaking, no change was needed at all, not even a change in the
 number of the year, as it is a perpetual card, good for all years to
 come. But some colors were improved and a new picture background
 (StarSky.gif) provided of a starry sky. It is against this starry background
 that the Earth moves, and it is on this Earth that environment-unfriendly
 and exclusivistic calendars should be replaced with the environmentally and
 ethnically inclusive Metric Calendar.
 
  
  
 In Southern Mid-Lent
 On 56.48.7 TRINPsite comprises 583 public files, of which approximately 466
 different or 'unique' ones: 94 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 15 *.html, 227 *.HTM,
 26 *Txt.htm, 6 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 65 picture files and 28
 sound files. 
 This month one new division was added from the Book of Fundamentals
 (division 1 of chapter 5), containing three new sections, that is, basic MNI
 files, together: The meanings of life
 and death, The so-called
 'intrinsic value' or 'sanctity of life',
 The right to live on the immutable norms.
 The new nodal file for this division was not added yet, while an old nodal
 file, The neutral-inclusive movement,
 underwent the change from a nongraphic *.html to a graphic *.htm file. 
 The list of Model MP3 files at
 the end of the sound files document was
 extended again, now with two new recordings: one of the first paragraph of
 A synopsis in
 The Doctrine of Neutral-Inclusivity and one
 of the seventh and last paragraph of
 Organizations and members in
 Building on the anabasis. The latter
 recording is unique in that it is a bilingual one, read both in This
 Language and in Deze Taal (to be pronounced approximately as |DEI.z.a TAHL|,
 when following the transcription introduced in
 the Vocabulary of Alliteration). At the
 moment it is impossible, for practical reasons, to use more than one
 language in TRINPsite, but an exception was made here, because the text of
 this paragraph is precisely about the right of every speech community to
 'sovranty' or 'sovereignty' in speaking and in writing.     
 Besides the two new Model sound files, the poem
 Hail, Critters of Hate, a poem  'in H major', was recorded for the first time. Of the same original   recording a telephone-quality wave file and a CD-quality MP3 file have been    provided. They can be accessed from the document with the poem itself or   from the general sound files document. The  visual appearance of the poem To Ananda has been improved  with a picture of a nanacatena   which is repeated on the background. 
 A completely new item is an interactive   crossword puzzle. Together with the  three-dimensional TRINP cube, which is also interactive, it has been  put in a new, special branch for 'Games 'n' Graphics'. (Not only the  location, but also the extension of the TRINP cube document was changed,  namely, from the nodal *.htm to the basic *.HTM.) Of course,  just as  TRINPsite does not host art for art's sake (or language for the  sake of   language), so it will not host games for the sake of games. But  it should   be obvious that the TRINP cube and the crossword as well very  clearly fit     into the general theme of this Internet site!
 
  
  
 In Southern Early Lent
 On 56.44.7 TRINPsite comprises 574 public files, of which approximately 458
 different or 'unique' ones: 94 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 16 *.html, 222 *.HTM,
 26 *Txt.htm, 6 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 25
 sound files. 
 This month, chapter 3 (The Norm of Neutrality) of the Book of Fundamentals
 was completed, when the last two divisions, containig five sections
 together, were added: Forms of catenated
 equality, The traditional principle of
 equality, The norm of interpersonal
 equality, Marks of honor exism and
 The norm of nanhonore. (The nodal files
 for these divisions were not added yet.) 
 Again, one basic MNI file was converted from a text file with the
 extension *Txt.htm to a graphic *.HTM file with floating menus:
 Some initial philosophizing on what comes
 first. And again, one nodal MNI file, The    DNI, the state and political ideologies, was changed from an *.html to  an *.htm file. 
 The new series of Model MP3 files at
 the end of the sound files document was
 extended with a recording of the Prefatory
 Notes and the Epilogue, bringing the total
 to nine Model text recordings. In addition, the poem
 Saxifrax was recorded as a
 song, and also this MP3 file was put on the Internet among the spoken
 versions of the same poem. 
  
  
 In Southern Equinoctial
 On 56.40.7 TRINPsite comprises 563 public files, of which approximately 450
 different or 'unique' ones: 93 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 17 *.html, 216 *.HTM,
 27 *Txt.htm, 6 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 22
 sound files. 
 This month one new division was added from the Book of Fundamentals     (division 4 of chapter 3), containing four new sections, that is, basic  MNI files, together: The situation of a
 happiness-catenal, The norm of
 well-being, Happiness as value or   unhappiness as disvalue, The principle
 of beneficence. (The nodal file for this division was not added yet.) 
 One basic MNI file was converted from a text file with the extension
 *Txt.htm to a graphic *.HTM file with floating menus:
 As to the supreme and the nanaic.
 One nodal MNI file, The DNI, the state and
 religious ideologies, underwent the same change, in this case from an
 *.html to an *.htm file. 
 A new feature in TRINPsite, as far as known not to be found anywhere else
 on the Internet, is the automatic random-viewing facility. This feature
 enables the visitor to see the TRINPsite documents at random in a newly
 opened window and without leaving the browser.
 Of course, it is not meant to replace
 browsing on the basis of document content, but it gives the visitor a good
 overall impression of what TRINPsite has to offer, without even having to
 touch the keyboard or mouse! It was relatively easy to introduce random
 viewing, because of the existence of a 'meta-file' which had already
 direct links to all text files: the lists of
 TRINPsite files. The links to these text files are put in an array by
 the browser, and can be invoked in JavaScript. It was much more difficult
 to make the script program run properly, because the user must be able to
 turn the program off at any time, or to pause to read some information, for
 instance. This information, and a STOP button, is provided in a separate
 file called "FileRndV.htm". The first time a copy is shown which is
 slightly different and which does not use JavaScript: FileRndI.htm.
 These two files are given the *.htm extension, because they are really part
 of, and only work with, FileList.htm, the source file in the opener window. 
 That is, ... if it works, for the system and browser (version) must be able
 to immediately detect the closure of the newly opened window. As the user
 must have the option to stop the program by closing the special window, or
 as 'e may do so anyhow in certain cases, this technical requirement must
 be met. If it is met, however, it will even be possible to surf during the
 random presentation, while the 1 minute given to each document is not yet
 over. This cannot be considered a normal and safe use of the automatic
 random-viewing feature tho, and should only be done with caution,
 since the computer browser or system
 may not be able to cope with JavaScript in one file which is used to open
 and govern a new window in which a file is loaded probably using JavaScript
 as well and a link is laid to another file probably again using its own
 JavaScript, and so forth and so on. 
 Another novel development does not so much concern the eyes, but rather the
 ears. Seven CD-quality *.mp3 files have been added this month with
 paragraphs from the several books of the
 Model of Neutral-Inclusivity.
 This is the beginning of a new series of Model sound files. At the end
 of the sound files document you will find a
 special list of texts from the Model which you can now both read and
 listen to, in addition to the prose poems and accompanying texts which
 were already available. 
  
  
 In Southern Mid-Yule
 On 56.36.7 TRINPsite comprises 550 public files, of which approximately 438
 different or 'unique' ones: 91 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 18 *.html, 211 *.HTM,
 28 *Txt.htm, 6 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 15
 sound files. 
 Three new divisions were added this month, one from the Book of Instruments (division 3 of chapter 7) and two from the Book of Fundamentals (divisions 2 and 3 of chapter 3), containing ten new sections, that is, basic files,  together: 
 Sieving the Values of the A- and C-Horizons (I73),
 Misassociations and Nonneutralist Attitudes (F32) and On Neutral Terms (F33). The nodal files for these divisions were not added yet, and therefore the above links are to the respective places in the MNI Table of Contents. In connection with these new additions the list of Model terms was adjusted.
 
 Until the beginning of this month paragraphs in Model sections were, like in all documents, always
 numbered 1, 2, 3, ... and later N1, N2, N3, ... consecutively. (That is,
 after the name tags were first introduced.) Within the MNI branch of the
 TRINPsite tree of files there was little against such a numbering. However,
 with these numbers it will be more difficult to put the section documents of
 one chapter, book or even the whole Model together in one file in the future
 and to make the intra-Model links work. Therefore, starting with F321 a new
 system of numbering paragraphs has been decided upon. The paragraph code
 will not only show its position within one section, but its position within
 the total Model. Thus, the code of the first paragraph in F321 is now not
 N1 but F3211. The code of the second paragraph is F3212, etc..
 Obviously, I will represent paragraphs from the Book of Instruments and S  those of the Book of Symbols. (Note that this is not to argue that the links  in the new section documents will work when sections belonging to  different divisions are put together in one file -- more is required for  that.) 
 For the same reason a similar change in codes was made in the numbering of
 the paragraphs of the stave files of the
 Vocabulary of Alliteration, starting with the sounds
 DH and
 D of which the files were updated this
 month. Within the same poetry branch The Loaf-Guards was converted from a
 text file with the extension *Txt.htm to a graphic *.HTM file with floating
 menus.
 
  
  
 In Southern Early Yule
 On 56.32.7 TRINPsite comprises 540 public files, of which approximately 428
 different or 'unique' ones: 91 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 18 *.html, 200 *.HTM,
 29 *Txt.htm, 6 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 15
 sound files. 
 This month saw the completion of Internet access to chapter 6 (Paradigms of Disciplinary Thought) of the Book of Instruments by the addition of the last four sections:
 The role of normative supremeness,
 Science as a social phenomenon,
 The analogy [between science and denominationalism] and
 With certain qualifications. 
 Three basic MNI files were converted from text files with the extension
 *Txt.htm to graphic *.HTM files with floating menus:
 Discriminational relevancy by analogy with truth,
 In conversations and information and
 Organizations and members. 
 Two nodal MNI files were converted from text files with the extension *.html to graphic *.htm files with floating menus:
 Elements of Normative Philosophy and
 Property. 
  
  
 In Equatorial Month
 On 56.28.7 TRINPsite comprises 536 public files, of which approximately 424
 different or 'unique' ones: 89 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 20 *.html, 193 *.HTM,
 32 *Txt.htm, 6 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 15
 sound files. On 56.25.3 a link tester counted 388 web pages and 8,355
 links, all of them site-internal. 
 This month saw the addition of the first four sections of chapter 6 (Paradigms of Disciplinary Thought) of the Book of Instruments:
 [The] principles [of disciplinary thought],
 Four departments: science and ideology,
 Four departments: philosophy and art and
 Religion. 
 Six basic MNI files were converted from text files with the extension *Txt.htm to graphic *.HTM files with floating menus:
 Objective or subjective?,
 The freedom not to support polarity or exclusivity,
 Freedom versus other values,
 Property: extrinsic and intrinsic,
 From religion-based to religious exclusivism and
 Freedom of religion and religionism. 
 Three nodal MNI files were converted from text files with the extension *.html to graphic *.htm files with floating menus:
 Relevancy,
 Property as a Right of Personhood and
 The Supreme and the Nanaic.
 A special style sheet for nodal MNI files (MNINodal.css) was added to the CSS directory. 
  
  
 In Northern Late Lent
 On 56.24.7 TRINPsite comprises 531 public files, of which approximately 419
 different or 'unique' ones: 86 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 23 *.html, 183 *.HTM,
 38 *Txt.htm, 5 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 15
 sound files. 
 The addition of the last four sections complete the possibility of public   access to division 1 (How to Survey a Morass of Irrelevance) of chapter 2   (The Manifestations of Exclusivism) of the Book of Fundamentals:
 Dimensional manifestations,
 Componential manifestations,
 Operational manifestations and
 The gravity of the distinction. 
 When TRINPsite was moved to its new and main TRINP address at
 www.trinp.org on 54.33.6, the old IN address at www.xs4all.nl/~in was kept
 as a subsidiary address. It fulfilled several functions: 
 -  The Vocabulary of Alliteration and a number of large sound files were
  kept there, because the new TRINP home was too small to fit the whole site
 (at the time it allowed for only 15 MB)
 
 -  Many new visitors entered (and still enter) TRINPsite via the main       page of the Vocabulary, that is, via the main page at the old address.
  As it would be a pity, if not a shame, to risk losing these visitors, of     whom a considerable part would/might later 'surf on' to the rest of the   site, the Vocabulary was kept at the old address
 
 -  Visitors who continued to enter TRINPsite via another page at the old     address were automatically referred and linked to the new address of that     page, so that they would not get lost.
 
 
 Meanwhile, conditions have changed: 
 -  At the moment there is enough room (50 MB) for all TRINPsite pages
  and sound files and the whole Vocabulary of Alliteration
 
 -  While the number of visitors at the new address had to be built up         from square one again, the TRINP statistics have now begun to surpass the       IN statistics. The addition of a copy of the whole Vocabulary to the
  TRINP address will only be an extra boost for this address.
 
 
 To come to the point: TRINPsite is now confined to one address, the
 address with its domain name www.trinp.org, the old address with
 the log-in name in being abandoned on 56.23.7. Most preparations
 for this move were already started in Mid-Lent. 
  
  
 In Northern Mid-Lent
 On 56.20.7 TRINPsite comprises 527 public files, of which approximately 415
 different or 'unique' ones: 86 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 23 *.html, 179 *.HTM,
 38 *Txt.htm, 5 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 15
 sound files. 
 This month a special style sheet file for nodal files other than MNI files
 was created: GenNodal.css in the CSS directory. The two JavaScript files
 Element1.js and Element2.js were deleted, because their function has been
 taken over by the file BodyFnct.js, which combines several functions and
 can be used on any level of the TRINPsite tree of files.  
 The addition of the seven sections of division 4 (Universal Ideals and
 Omnifarious Failures) completed the first chapter of the Book of
 Fundamentals (The Norm of Inclusivity), that is, made it accessible for
 everyone on the Internet:
 Just a few examples [of universal ideals and
 omnifarious failures], Peace instead of
 war, Democracy instead of
 dictatorship, Equality instead of
 discrimination, Tolerance instead of
 intolerance, Being free instead of being
 unfree and "... and at long last they
 realized how to proceed". 
 Immediately after its creation the highly alliterative poem Hail, Critters of Hate was added
 to the list of annotated non-computer-generated poems on TRINPsite. 
 Finally, this month witnessed the total separation of the old address
 (www.xs4all.nl/~in) from the new address (www.trinp.org/). In the course of
 Northern Mid-Lent all links from the new to the old address were severed
 (but not the other way around). This makes it possible to abandon the old
 address altogether without infringing on the policy that TRINPsite does not
 have and will not have any external links. The most important item left at
 the old address was and is the Vocabulary of Alliteration, and to keep it
 as part of TRINPsite (as well) it has been duplicated at the new mirror
 address www.trinp.org/Poet/VocAll.htm, or
 in relative terms from here: ../Poet/VocAll.htm. This means that from now
 on the same dictionary can be found at two different locations.
 
  
  
 In Northern Equinoctial
 On 56.16.7 TRINPsite comprises 520 public files, of which approximately 407
 different or 'unique' ones: 86 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 23 *.html, 171 *.HTM,
 38 *Txt.htm, 4 style sheets, 6 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 15
 sound files. 
 This month the six sections of divisions 2 (Discrimination and Attitudinal
 Consistency) and 3 (Two Principal Attitudes) of the first chapter (The Norm
 of Inclusivity) of the Book of Fundamentals were added to TRINPsite:
 Condemnatory meanings of
 discrimination, Distinguishing
 nonrelevant distinctions, The clustering
 of attitudes and practises, Inclusivity
 as a criterion of attitudinal consistence,
 The exclusive and the inclusive attitudes
 and Can feelings about mixed scriptures be
 steady?. 
 Three old files were converted from a plain-text to a graphic format. They
 make up division 6.2 (The DNI, the State and Political Ideologies) of the
 Book of Fundamentals: Truth,
 nondiscrimination and the state,
 Monarchism an
 Politico-ideological exclusivism. 
 TRINPsite's hypertext pages have always had direct links to
 the top of the TRINPsite tree and to
 intermediate levels between that top and the page visited. However, these
 structural links were to be found at the top and at the bottom of the page
 only. When scrolling a page larger than the height of the screen from top
 to bottom, a part of these links or all of them 'disappeared' as it were.
 One way to get around this phenomenon is to use frames and to divide the
 screen in two or more parts, as can be done with the multiple viewing
 options in the main index page,
 the main document and in
 the main page of the Vocabulary of
 Alliteration. One of these frames can contain a static list
 of links or a 'menu'. But the main, active frame will have less room
 for reading and this reading will require more scrolling, in the worst case
 even horizontally, dependent, of course, on the resolution used. It is to
 bypass these disadvantages that so-called 'floating menus' have been
 introduced, one menu with the main links on the far left and one with a
 selection of links on the far right. These floating
 menu boxes remain present, wherever the reader or browser finds
 'erself on the page, unless
 'e decides to turn them, or one of
 them, off, because 'e does not feel the need for them, or because they or
 one of the two disturbs 'im. Also
 the latter thing will depend on the resolution, because for screens of 800
 pixels or wider the menus will not or hardly cover the central text page,
 which has a standard width of 600 pixels in TRINPsite, regardless of the
 screen resolution.
 
 The quite sudden introduction of floating box menus proves once again how
 important it is to keep the design of HTML pages flexible, to account for
 unforeseen future developments as much as possible. It explains for a large
 part why the following changes have been made in the MNI basic format (as
 used in, for example, the new files above) and in other standardized *.HTM
 and *.htm documents: 
 
  -  the references to the external StatWind and ShowPics JavaScript files
   have been replaced by one reference to one 'body functions' file, called
   "BodyFnct.js". This new file does not only contain the old functions but
   also the functions needed for floating boxes. Moreover, it allows for a
   much greater flexibility in the future
 
  -  functions like InsLoad(S) (that is, loading inside the body statement)
   and OutsLoad(S) (loading outside the body statement) have been created and
   made part of the body statement and the JavaScript script immediately
   following in order to be able to make an active use of that flexibility,
   now or in the future. Changes in the menu(s), for instance, can be made
   in the external JavaScript file at a central place instead of in tens or
   hundreds of basic and nodal documents
 
  -  the same applies to the use of external CSS files. The general part
   of the contents of the original CSS file for basic MNI documents
   (MNIBasic.css) was moved to a new CSS file which is to serve as
   external file for all pages: AllPages.css. Moreover, a file called
   "GenBasic.css" was added for the CSS definitions of those basic
   text documents which do not belong to the Model
 
  -  from 56.13.5 on each standard file will get
   a 'version date' called "VersDateS".
   This string value is given to the argument of the body
   functions and of the write functions, such as, Write_PostPage(S). The
   primary use of these arguments is to make it possible to do different
   things for different (types of) pages with the same function.
   Write_BotPart(A), for instance, will then give another page bottom than
   Write_BotPart(B). For the moment, however, the string will only be used
   to let the function 'know' the version date, so that pages which were
   created before that date and that make use of the same external
   JavaScript file (and the functions contained therein) will not end up in
   a mess and/or yield error messages. Write_PostPage("56135"), for instance,
   makes it possible to introduce floating menus without distorting the older
   files (from before 56.13.5) which make use of the same functions. Altho
   they will not be showing any menu, because they did not have the
   appropriate 'onload' phrase in their body statement, they will not change
   for the worse either: they will just remain the same
 
  -  the Write_PrePage(S) and Write_PostPage(S) scripts have been moved
   outside the scope of the general page centering statement, while the
   Write_TopPart(S) and Write_BotPart(S) functions will remain within that
   scope. In this way the former two functions can be used to create elements
   on the left and on the right of the screen, especially for a resolution or
   width of more than 640 pixels. A menu box on the left and/or the right of
   the (undivided) screen is an example of this
 
  -  the menu boxes make use of BodyFnct.js, PostPage.js and AllPages.css.
   The introduction of this dynamic feature is a matter of JavaScript work
   with respect to its structure and a matter of CSS work with respect to
   its presentation (but the boundary between the two is not sharp)
 
  -  in order to conform with XHTML syntax all HTML code in capitals has
   been or will be replaced by small letters, while attribute values have
   been or will be placed between quotes. Thus, 'onLoad' will be 'onload'
   and 'width=600' will be 'width="600"' from this month on. For the same
   reason HTML tags which do not have a closing tag are now to be
   terminated by means of a closing forward slash in the tag itself. The
   upshot of all these changes is that the code of the new standard pages
   complies with the specifications for transitional Dynamic HTML.
  
 
  
  
  
 
 In Northern Late Yule
 On 56.12.7 TRINPsite comprises 511 public files, of which approximately 398
 different or 'unique' ones: 86 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 23 *.html, 162 *.HTM,
 41 *Txt.htm, 2 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 15
 sound files. 
 This month division 5 (Nonconsequentialist Theories) of the seventh chapter
 (Elements of Normative Philosophy) of the Book of Instruments was added to
 the Internet Model, consisting of three sections or basic text  files: 
 Deontology's duties and dilemmas,
 Rule-deontology and
 Both consequentialistic and deontological,
 or neither. 
 Making a new section of the Model accessible to the general public on the
 Internet requires more preparation than getting the right MNI basic format
 and the right text. It also requires that all relevant nodal files be
 connected to this new basic file in order to be able to get there in the
 TRINPsite tree of files. Some of these nodal files may even have to be newly
 created or to be extended to make this possible. Furthermore, within the new
 document itself hypertext links will have to be provided to other parts of
 the Model itself or to one of the Value documents, everywhere where there is
 an explicit reference to another part of the Model or where a certain
 knowledge, especially of the preceding sections, is implicitly taken for
 granted. This should partially explain why a large part of the Model is not
 yet available on the Internet in the way it ought (and is going) to be
 available. 
 However, those who want to read a particular section of the Book
 of Instruments or of Chapter 1 of the Book of Fundamentals to which there
 is no link from the TRINPsite tree of files yet, can now do so by accessing
 the basic file in question directly. This can be done by entering the whole
 address of this file or by going to the directory in which it is to be
 found. For example, if you want to read the second section of the third
 division of the seventh chapter of the Book of Fundamentals before it is
 'officially' made part of TRINPsite you can either use the address
 www.trinp.org/ followed by MNI/BoI/7/3/BoF732.HTM or go to the directory
 MNI/BoI/7/3 and select file BoI732.HTM there. After a temporary file such
 as 'BoI732.HTM' has been corrected and updated, however, it will get its
 permanent standard name '2.HTM', or in full: 'MNI/BoI/7/3/2.HTM'.  
 
  
  
 In Northern Mid-Yule
 On 56.08.7 TRINPsite comprises 508 public files, of which approximately 395
 different or 'unique' ones: 86 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 23 *.html, 159 *.HTM,
 41 *Txt.htm, 2 style sheets, 5 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 15
 sound files. 
 This month division 4 (Consequentialist Theories) of the seventh chapter
 (Elements of Normative Philosophy) of the Book of Instruments was added to
 the Internet Model, consisting of two sections or basic text files: 
 [Consequentialist theories] in general;
 utilitarianism in particular and
 Decision-theoretical consequentialism. 
 A special directory was created for Cascading Style Sheet or CSS files. The
 first two external style sheet documents are MNIBasic.css for basic MNI
 files and VoAStave.css for the stave files of the Vocabulary of Alliteration.
 These documents are 'external' in that the style sheet definitions are not
 part of the text files themselves. Altho the basic MNI and stave files
 which  make use of these style sheets are not found on the same levels they
 are all found on the lowest level of the branch of the TRINPsite tree
 concerned. Besides the obvious advantages of the use of style sheets --with
 a separate CSS document at top level, so that in future all additions and
 changes can be made at one point at the top-- their introduction makes it
 easier to  comply with HTML validation rules. At the same time,  however,
 style sheets will not be used extensively at this moment, because there are
 still many  browsers in use without the CSS facility, and the pages should
 look (almost) exactly the same there. This means that the documents will be
 transitional HTML 4.0 versions for the time being: 'transitional' in that
 they contain both the old HTML definitions and the new CSS definitions. 
 It was about time to pay some special attention to HTML validation, that is,  to   making HTML files 'valid' regardless of the browser(s) used. There was  the   occasional real error, but most so-called "errors" were 'font'  questions.   Font tags have always been used with a span beyond paragraphs,  and sometimes  even tables. This is very economical, and never caused  problems in the    Internet Explorer and Netscape versions regularly checked. But  strictly speaking, a  font can only be used within a paragraph and within  the cell of a table. If  not, then an error message appears of the following type:  'possible cause an inline  element  containing a block-level element', the  inline element being  <font> and  the block-level element being  <p> or <table>. As far as HTML is concerned this means that the font  definition has to be repeated  for every single paragraph. (But who ever  thought of a text in which the  font changes for every paragraph?) 
 This month also saw the introduction of more JavaScript scripts with which   to create or revise parts of a document  at a central point. In this way  tens  or hundreds of documents can be added to or changed at one go. Just as  in  the case of CSS, now not only with regard to presentation, but  indeed  with regard to the content itself! For this purpose files are going to be  divided in  six parts: PrePage (empty by default), TopPart (empty, because  at present  written in each document itself), the framed Cen[ter]Part (with  the main  text body), FramSub (already introduced before), BotPart (like  TopPart at  present still written in each separate document) and PostPage  (empty by  default). One may wonder what sense it makes to order the browser  to write  nothing, but the crux is, of course, that text or pictures or  whatever can  be added at the top, at the bottom or elsewhere without having  to change the  basic files themselves. It is only one  JavaScript file in  the top JS directory which has to be manipulated. Moreover, items can easily be added temporarily instead of  permanently. 
 The new basic MNI file format, as in MNI/BoI/1/1/1.HTM, is
 now completely validated, with two exceptions. First it is against HTML rules to use table
 backgrounds. These  backgrounds have been transferred to the CSS facility, but, again, for the
 moment one cannot fully depend on that facility. Some table backgrounds do show in Netscape
 with HTML but not with CSS. And as these particular backgrounds are important for the
 appearance of the page they have been left in, even tho the validator reports an 'error'. The
 second kind of 'error' which has been left in knowingly is the use of the <nobr> tag.
 This tag is very useful to prevent text from being broken off in an unwanted way. For example,
 if it is desirable to keep 'neutral-inclusivity' as one word in a title, instead of 'neutral-'
 on the one line and 'inclusivity' on the  next, then this tag will do the work. It is
 especially useful in the Vocabulary of Alliteration,
 where an entry as FILE(S) may appear as FILE on the one line and (S) on the next, if not taking
 any measures.(For the HTML-validated stave format see the first letter in the collection of
 staves that rotates.) 
 'Officially' anchor names are always to start with a letter (A-Z or a-z). So,  paragraphs should not be called "1", "2", "3", etc. anymore, and they will  now be called "N1", "N2", "N3", etc. with the N for 'Number'. Besides, the  <a name="N1"> tag is an HTML feature. In CSS each paragraph can be given its own identity with 'id', so that the first paragraph is now   defined as <p id="N1">. The font for all paragraphs called 'p' (by  default) is defined in the external CSS file, needs to be defined only once  and is the same for all paragraphs, unless otherwise defined. So the font definition does not have to be repeated for every paragraph as in HTML. In the transitional period during which "1", "2", "3" labels will be replaced with "N1", "N2", "N3" (etc) labels, links to specific paragraphs within documents may not always work. Internet Explorer will, then, stop at the beginning of the document, Netscape at the end. 
 
  
  
 In Northern Early Yule
 On 56.04.7 TRINPsite comprises 507 public files, of which approximately 391
 different or 'unique' ones: 86 *.htm (not *Txt.htm), 23 *.html, 157 *.HTM,
 41 *Txt.htm, 5 JavaScript files, 64 picture files and 15 sound files. 
 On the occasion of the start of the Metric New Year, immediately after the
 Northern winter solstice, a New Year('s)
 card was made available for people visiting TRINPsite during the first
 three weeks of the year. Altho it is a card specially for the year 56 on
 the surface, it is actually an electronic card that will be good for all
 New Years to come, a 'perpetual New Year card' so to say. This does not
 preclude the possibility that the design will be changed in the future, but
 it is not absolutely necessary to do so. 
 This month three new sections, that is, basic text files were added to the
 Model of Neutral-Inclusivity, so that the second division of the Book of
 Instruments is now complete. The nodal file of this division,
 The Choice of Ontological
 Instrument, was included too. As always, the section files can be
 accessed as a group from that division file or from the total
 Contents of the Model. 
 Last month a special directory was created for JavaScript files, with
 JS/StatWind.js showing the Metric date in the status window. For the
 information of the TRINPsite visitor a special document,
 Info/StatWind.HTM, was added explaining
 how easy it is for any website builder to put the Metric date in 'er
 status window. 
 Two new *.js files were added. JS/FramSub.js writes down the data
 immediately below the general text frame in all graphic text files
 everywhere. This part of the hundreds of TRINPsite documents can now be
 changed or adjusted or extended or otherwise managed from one central point
 in the TRINPsite tree of files. (It concerns the simplest part, with no
 document-dependent variables and only one link, to the
 Stichting DNI Foundation, which is the same
 for all documents). The second JavaScript file added was JS/NoteMM.js.
 This file produces the Note of the Metric Month in the
 TRINPsite Main Document. It does not only
 contain the present 'note', but it can also contain the notes for one or
 more months to come without them being visible for the viewer or even in
 the source code. (After all notes for future months should remain a
 surprise of some sort.) 
 As the three pictures in Graf/Ad/Time (Ini..., Arr... and NewTopC6.gif)
 were replaced by copies from Graf/Ad (Ini..., Arr... and NewTopC1.gif), the
 number of unique picture files diminished. The 'new' copies link to the
 special StatWind document mentioned above.
 
 Finally, the present *.HTM file for the 56th year after the end of the
 Second World War is new as well.
 
  
      
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