Re: [docbook] Callout, footnotes, & annotations.

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

cga2000 wrote:

>> can imagine creating alternative output of callouts using SVG to draw
>> connecting arrows instead bulleted numbers.
> 
> That's (vaguely) what I had in mind .. clean arrows, rather than these
> ugly hyphens .. etc.  But I didn't find any sample or doc that would
> show you how to do that so I figured it wasn't possible.


Rather than having n callouts on one line,
why not make 5 references to the same one?


>  &lt;define name="section">                               <co xml:id="triggers.ex3.3"/>
>     &lt;element name="section">
>       &lt;element name="title">&lt;text/>&lt;/element>
>       &lt;oneOrMore>&lt;element name="para">&lt;text/>&lt;/element>&lt;/oneOrMore>
>     &lt;/element>
>   &lt;/define>
>   
>   &lt;define name="sect">                                  <co xml:id="triggers.ex3.4"/>
>     &lt;element name="sect">
>       &lt;element name="head">&lt;text/>&lt;/element>
>       &lt;oneOrMore>&lt;element name="para">&lt;text/>&lt;/element>&lt;/oneOrMore>
>     &lt;/element>
>   &lt;/define>
>   
> &lt;/grammar>
>     
>    
>   </programlisting>
>   <calloutlist>
>     <callout arearefs="triggers.ex3.1">
>       <para>Any of the 3 elements may be used as the start element</para>
>     </callout>
>     <callout arearefs="triggers.ex3.2">
>       <para>The root element is defined as being empty</para>
>     </callout>
>     <callout arearefs="triggers.ex3.3">
>       <para>The <tag class="element">section</tag> element contains a <tag class="element">title</tag> child</para>
>     </callout>
>     <callout arearefs="triggers.ex3.4">
>       <para>The <tag class="element">sect</tag> element contains a <tag class="element">head </tag> child</para>
>     </callout>
>    </calloutlist>
> </example>

No reason I can't have 5 callouts, each specifying the same co element?

Does that helpl?
   btw, I hope you have the appropriate customisation in place, to use 
the Unicode glyphs instead of just numbers?




regards

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