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Re: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element


At 09:30 26/06/2002 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote:

* Marginalia are floating constucts which are already tricky,
  but they are further complicated by the fact that their
  composed locations are supposed to be vertically aligned
  with their anchor in the flowing text.  Not only is this
  hard to do at best, but it's not even easy to define.  For
  example:  what is the proper alignment when you have two
  marginalia on the same word?; what do you do when marginalia
  anchored near the bottom of the page won't all fit on that
  page?; what happens when the anchors for two marginalia are
  closer together than the height of the first marginalia?, etc.
We didn't say it was easy Paul, just that it would be welcome:-)

If it needs to be constrained then so be it.

regards DaveP



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