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Re: Playing with annotations...
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: Dave Pawson <daveP at dpawson dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:14:54 -0400
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Playing with annotations...
- References: <5.1.1.6.2.20020820183532.020eb008@pop.freeserve.net>
/ Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk> was heard to say:
| At 06:56 20/08/2002, Norman Walsh wrote:
|
|><phrase>Hello World<annotation class="note">A common test phrase</annotation></phrase>
|>
|>Simple display of annotations puts them inline:
|>
|> Hello World[<a>Annotation</a>]
|
| +1, blatent.
I think this is my preference as well. It seems especially superior
when the element in question contains more than one annotation.
|>popup uses JavaScript to make hovering over the link popup a window
|>containing the annotation. Non-popup doesn't, but uses JavaScript to
|>popup a new browser window if the user clicks on it.
|
| Bleah is how Norm once spelled it I think.
| javascript and docbook don't mix Norm.
Well, JavaScript is only on the HTML side. If you unpack the archive,
you can see how it works.
| 'Treat as per footnotes' is my favourite now.
| (Is Paul normally this 'deep' with his questions :-)
Almost invariably. :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
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