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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Playing with annotations...
At 01:16 22/08/2002, 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? > >Probably not. Side floats are not implemented in >any of the FO processors that I know of, not even XEP. <grin/>Oh yes they are. Next release of xep! Boy do they look good. >The XSL-FO area generation for side floats looks quite >complicated in the spec. It seems intended to handle >images intruding into the text, with text wrapping around >it. Yep, and the demo's really do look good. >I'm more interested in a fixed side margin big enough to >handle text annotations. My approach would be to put all >the normal blocks into the fo:list-item-body part of a >fo:list-item, and reserve its fo:list-item-label for >annotation blocks associated with that normal block. If >the list-item parts have fixed widths, you should get a >regular margin, and the list-item pairing should keep the >annotation near its text. I doubt I'll get line-by-line >alignment, This is the problem. It will work for some content, but will look odd for others. >but top-of-paragraph alignment would still >be useful. This is all theortical, since I haven't >actually tried this. But I think the current FO processors >would handle this. Text alignment in the vertical direction isn't well supported for lists. >> I've heard the term marginalia, which could be an equivalent >> of annotation? > >Yes, this presentation could be referred to as marginalia. >I hesitate to use that term, because, like you, many people >take it as equivalent to annotation. My dictionary defines >marginalia as notes in a book margin. I prefer Paul >Grosso's distinction that marginalia is a presentation mode >of annotation, and that annotations are a logical concept >that can be expressed in many presentation modes. OK, I did say it was a new term to me. With the above, I'm shifting my view towards annotations== footnotes, but them at the bottom of the page. Regards DaveP
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