[DDI-SRG] ok I know I said no more bugs..but...

Wendy Thomas wlt at pop.umn.edu
Mon Mar 23 20:48:43 EDT 2009


Karl Dinkelman raised a point today when asking when they would see the 
ability to use structured text in QuestionText. He mentioned that often 
they need to indicate an underline or bold in a response category. 
Currently this is not possible as Label is an InternationalString. This 
made sense when we piled the content of spss names etc into Label. Now 
that we have broken all of these different aspects out, Label is now 
treated as display Label. If we changed this to a structured string with 
the added ability to indicate if structure was required for sense and the 
prefered display we would be able to meet their needs fully. The question 
is twofold:

First, does this hold true universally for "Label" or would we be 
introducing garbage in some places.

Second, are we willing to expand the resolution of our Name, Label, 
Description discussion to include this or does it need to wait for next 
time.

Karl will get back to us with their assessment by tomorrow morning.

Wendy

Wendy L. Thomas                          Phone: +1 612.624.4389
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