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

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

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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