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Re: Playing with annotations...


On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:21:32PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Norman Walsh writes:
> 
> > At the last TC meeting, I took an action to experiment with stylesheet
> > support for annotations.
> 
> ISTM that what you describe is exactly a footnote.  How is an annotation
> different from a footnote?  Isn't a footnote used to annotate things?
> The term "footnote" is derived from the world of paginated output, but the
> formatting possibilities you describe merely seem to be more modern
> variants of "footnotes" in hypertext display.

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>.

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