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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Keyboard shortcuts for links
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:15:27PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: > / 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. OK, but what about when my <textobject> is just ASCII art? It'd be nice to be able to write something like <mediabobject> <!-- XXX Must remember to fire up xfig and create a graphic. In the meantime, include some ASCII art as a placeholder --> <textobject> <literallayout class="monospaced"> _ _ _ __ (_) | __ | '_ \| | |/ / | | | | | < |_| |_|_|_|\_\</literallayout> </textobject> </mediaobject> [ I can't believe I just installed figlet for that ] XInclude and XLink are also (as far as I can tell) XML, rather than SGML. I'm not entirely sure whether that means they'll be incompatible with SGML, but if they are, it's not as useful as it might be. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery
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