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Re: Playing with annotations...
- From: llarsen at caldera dot com (Lance F. Larsen)
- To: Dave Pawson <daveP at dpawson dot freeserve dot co dot uk>,Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx dot net>,Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Playing with annotations...
>> From daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk Thu Aug 22 00:57:27 2002
>>
>> At 15:35 21/08/2002, Bob Stayton wrote:
>>
>> >Footnotes are annotations, but not all annotations must be
>> >footnotes, even in print. I'm hoping the annotation
>> >mechanism might be used to put annotations next to
>> >paragraphs in a wide page margin. It looks like FO might
>> >even handle that using <fo:list-block>.
>>
>> or float?
>>
>> I've heard the term marginalia, which could be an equivalent
>> of annotation?
Marginalia is another subset of annotation: it refers to handwritten
annotations on a printed document, usually by the recipient of that
document, rather than annotations that were part of the original doc-
ument.
>> regards DaveP
>>
>>
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