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

[Martin Holmes <mholmes@uvic.ca>]

Perfect! That's exactly what I needed. Many thanks.

Cheers,
Martin

Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> DocBook includes an element named <property>, which is a general
> purpose element for describing any kind of property.  You could
> use something like:
> 
> <property role="color">#FFFFFF<property>
> 
> Similarly with role="shape", and any other kind of properties you
> need to document.
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Martin Holmes" <mholmes@uvic.ca>
> To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:25 AM
> Subject: [docbook] 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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