Re: DOCBOOK: What should a <sidebar> look like? - M. Wroth - org.oasis-open.lists.docbook

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Jason Foster	Dec 17, 2001 12:30 pm
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Yann Dirson	Dec 19, 2001 12:39 am
M. Wroth	Dec 19, 2001 5:39 am
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Michael P. Urban	Dec 20, 2001 9:04 am
Jason Foster	Jan 16, 2002 7:59 am

Subject:	Re: DOCBOOK: What should a <sidebar> look like?
From:	M. Wroth (ma...@astrid.upland.ca.us)
Date:	Dec 19, 2001 5:39:47 am
List:	org.oasis-open.lists.docbook

I think there is more difference than layout, although it does depend on what the author is doing. <marginalnote>Marginal notes are not the same as footnotes</> A marginal note is typically a summary or key point, while a footnote is typically additional information (such as bibliographic reference). At least in that scheme, they are semantically different.<footnote>Purely personal opinion.</>

At 09:37 AM 12/19/01 +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:35:10PM -0800, M. Wroth wrote:

I agree that marginal notes are not sidebars, but neither are they footnotes.

But both marginalia and footnotes are specific layouts for text that is, semantically, a note attached to some point in the text. Whether the rendering of this note shall produce one or the other layout object is a matter style.

OTOH, I does raise a question about the <footnote> name - it is the name of a layout item, not of a semantic item, as already shown by the "end notes" rendering.

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