Re: DOCBOOK: Playing with annotations...

[llarsen@caldera.com (Lance F. Larsen)]

>> From daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk Thu Aug 22 00:57:27 2002
>> 
>> At 15:35 21/08/2002, Bob Stayton wrote:
>> 
>> >Footnotes are annotations, but not all annotations must be
>> >footnotes, even in print.  I'm hoping the annotation
>> >mechanism might be used to put annotations next to
>> >paragraphs in a wide page margin.  It looks like FO might
>> >even handle that using <fo:list-block>.
>> 
>> or float?
>> 
>> I've heard the term marginalia, which could be an equivalent
>> of annotation?

Marginalia is another subset of annotation: it refers to handwritten 
annotations on a printed document, usually by the recipient of that 
document, rather than annotations that were part of the original doc-
ument.  
 
>> regards DaveP
>> 
>> 

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