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Subject: Re: [docbook] Marking up marginalia notes...
Michael(tm) Smith wrote: > [...] > That sounds like what TEI is intended for. Is there a reason you > decided to use DocBook instead of TEI? These documents are mostly census reports and tabulations and contain large numbers of complex tables, charts, maps, tables of contents in a rigid heirarchy of sections, parts, divisions, publications etc. So far there's relatively little "free" text other than some opening paragraphs in each volume. DocBook seemed to be a better semantic match for this kind of document, although I'm happy to be persuaded otherwise. >> Some of these publications have paragraphs with notes printed >> next to them in the margin in much smaller type. > [...] > The annotation element and annotations attribute: > > http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/annotation.html > http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/ref-elements.html#db.cmn.annotations > > You can associate an annotation with a particular element either > by putting an "annotations" attribute on the element, with its value > set to the xml:id value of the annotation; or you can do it by > putting an "annotates" attribute on the annotation, with its value > set to the xml:id of the element it annotates. That's very useful -- thanks! Stu -- Stuart Hungerford ANUSF Data Intensive Projects
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