[projectaon] Re: Entering a section number without a link
- From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:43:33 +0300
On Thursday 08 July 2010, Timothy Pederick wrote:
> On 9 July 2010 00:15, Jonathan Blake <blake.jon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 1) Not all formats will have linking capability (e.g. if someone
> > chooses to print the upcoming PDFs).
> >
> > 2) Not all formats will present a separate Numbered Sections page.
> >
> > 3) It doesn't make much sense to tell a person to turn to the Table
> > of Contents to turn to a numbered section in a printed book. (This
> > is kind of a corollary to #1.)
>
> Here's my thoughts: The link should be implemented in the transforms
> to final formats, not in the XML itself. The HTML editions can add a
> link in a footnote, or have a Javascripted interface pop up, or (my
> favourite) just make the "turn to the entry number" text into a
> link. The PDF editions can also make that text a link, and then it
> just doesn't show up when printed (or at worst, it shows up in a
> different style: underlined, bold, whatever).
Yes. We do already have special handling of illustrations and especially
of the action charts and stuff for the different formats e.g. via the
<instance> tag. We could also use this for those footnotes.
Regards,
Ingo
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