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Re: Re: Keyboard shortcuts for links
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 got the example from tdg, but had I not wanted to,
> | I need not have put in either the caption or the text.
>
> I think that falls under the umbrella of attempting to legislate
> morality. If authors are forced to put in tags, but not motivated to
> do it well, they'll just put in <phrase/> or <phrase>text
> desc</phrase> or something like that.
Maybe. But how about making textobject a first class child of
mediaobject, and giving us a textdata element, analogous to imagedata?
Then we could write
<mediaobject>
<textobject>
<textdata fileref="file.c">
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
and not have to have the current inlinegraphic hack (which will stop
working in DocBook 5.0 anyway).
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