Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Keyboard shortcuts for links

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> was heard to say:
| On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:35:23PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
| > / Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk> was heard to say:
| > | How about making the text version of an image mandatory?
[...]
| > 
| > I think that falls under the umbrella of attempting to legislate
| > morality. If authors are forced to put in tags, but not motivated to
[...]
| Maybe.  But how about making textobject a first class child of
| mediaobject, and giving us a textdata element, analogous to imagedata?

We've been reluctant because at least two other specifications will
provide this ability: XInclude and XLink.

| and not have to have the current inlinegraphic hack (which will stop
| working in DocBook 5.0 anyway).

Actually, it works in <inlinemediaobject> too ;-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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