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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: What should a <sidebar> look like?
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 05:41:17AM -0800, M. Wroth wrote: > I think there is more difference than layout, although it does depend on > what the author is doing. <marginalnote>Marginal notes are not the same as > footnotes</> A marginal note is typically a summary or key point, while a > footnote is typically additional information (such as bibliographic > reference). At least in that scheme, they are semantically > different.<footnote>Purely personal opinion.</> I'd rather say that those 2 layout options are used to render 2 variations of a "note" concept. We could say for example that <footnote role="summary"> should be rendered as marginalia, <footnote role="moreinfo"> as footnote, and <footnote role="whatever"> as endnote. -- Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software Engineer Ingénieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatique-Libre Debian GNU/Linux developper <dirson@debian.org>
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