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Subject: Re: Shape and colour (NOT style stuff) in DocBook 5


Hi there,

Does anyone have any suggestions for this? Is it really the case that 
there's no way to encode colour information in DocBook?

Cheers,
Martin

Martin Holmes wrote:
> HI there,
> 
> I'm writing an image annotation tool, and users are selecting areas on 
> an image, and adding annotations to them. Annotations can be categorized 
> by function or type, and each category is associated with a shape 
> (spiral, rect, cross, ellipse) which appears on the image, and a colour 
> which is used to draw the shape. I'm using screenshot elements with 
> areas to store the data in docbook (although the app's native format is 
> a combination of TEI and SVG). I need to store the shape and colour the 
> user has associated with each annotation category. The meaning of the 
> shapes and colours is the user's choice; it may be simply mnemonic or it 
> may have broader significance, depending on what they're doing when the 
> annotate the image.
> 
> I'd just like to find some standard attribute or element in which I can 
> store a hex colour, and one I can use for descriptive text for the 
> shape. It seems as though a format designed for documentation should 
> have some way of describing colours and shapes, but I just can't find 
> anything.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> Norman Walsh wrote:
>> / Martin Holmes <mholmes@uvic.ca> was heard to say:
>> | mixing display and data, so don't flame me please; the data itself
>> | includes information about colour and shape, and I'm looking for a
>> | standard way to encode this in DocBook attributes or elements, if
>> | possible without abusing existing tags. Does anyone have any
>> | suggestions?
>>
>> Can you provide an example of the sort of thing it is and what the
>> shapes and colors mean?
>>
>>                                         Be seeing you,
>>                                           norm
>>
> 



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