Re: DOCBOOK: Issues with processing expectations of theproposedannotation element

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com>]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:01:59PM +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > But I don't think there's actually any easy way to render marginila in
> > HTML or in XSL-FO or DSSSL, so I doubt you'll ever see the DocBook
> > stylesheets providing an option for rendering annotations as marginalia.
> 
> If you can rely on CSS capable browsers, marginalias in HTML are quite
> easy. But DSSSL and XSL-FO are still big problem. :-(

IIRC, currently in DSSSL footnotes in simple-page-sequences are
implemented using a jade-specific extension.  It shouldn't be that
hard to do the same for marginalia, until Cristian has finished his
work on implementing full page-sequence semantics (see recent
dsssllist archives).

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