Re: DOCBOOK: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>]

At 10:49 27/06/2002 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:

>How do people feel <annotation> would relate to <footnote> and <remark> ?

Markup wise, same thing different name?


>It seems to me that <remark> would be just a special case of
><annotation> (class="(Editorial|ProofReader)", and maybe a couple
>more), and that <footnote> could be merged into <annotation> as well,
>but I'd rather not use "footnote" as a class value, as it has IMHO too
>much layout-oriented connotation.  Maybe footnotes could be made the
>default processing for <annotation>, and some annotation classes
>(eg. editorial comments) would be possible to render as marginalia.

Principle being that annotations (== notes?) default to being
placed at the end (of something) unless another location is
specified... where? in the source or in the stylesheet :-)

regards DaveP