Re: [user-assistance-discuss] Thoughts on Graphical Callouts

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> was heard to say:
| / "Paul Prescod" <paul.prescod@xmetal.com> was heard to say:
| | 1. Do the stylesheets actually generate any kind of marks or do you
| | presume that the marks are in the underlying graphic?
|
| At the moment, I assume the marks are in the graphic. (For marks on
| program listings and other text content, they're inserted.)
|
| I think I could add the marks with CSS, but I haven't had a chance to
| verify that yet. I do plan to try...eventually.

I tinkered a bit this morning. You can't (apparently) position things
relatively on a relatively positioned graphic with CSS.

Then it struck me, all the data is there, all we need is a tool to do
the right thing. So I coded up a stylesheet and a perl script as a
proof of concept. Sure enough, I can now generate the graphic with the
overlays from an original graphic and a list of overlays. And I can
generate the command line to do it from the DocBook sources with XSL.
Sweet!

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh
XML Standards Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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