[projectaon] Re: The infamous "illref" element
- From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:17:05 +0000
Thomas Wolmer wrote:
Does anyone remembered me babbling about enabling placement of large
illustrations in more than one section?
Yeah, and I didn't understand it then, either! ;-)
http://www.projectaon.org/staff/thomas/illrefs/nn01gstw/title.htm
You should only see a few tiny differences from the regular published
Grey Star the Wizard, namely that the "Illustration I", etc, large
illustration names in the table of illustrations are now links, and
that one large illustration occurs in two places. Perhaps not so
revolutionary, but the major changes are in the XML file. (Here is
where the mumbo-jumbo starts.)
OK, I don't understand it, but this I like. Multiple placement for large
illustrations = good; linking to the actual illustrations themselves from the
Table of Illustrations = very good; simplifying XML (therefore potentially
speeding things up) = excellent! ^_^
Phew. Anyone still reading? Feedback? At least I have improved my XSLT
and XPath skills considerably. :-)
Well, I can't help you since it's all above my head, but it certainly does seem
to have been worth doing: simplifying and streamlining an apparently complicated
process. Great!
Now I really feel like making the generation of the footnotes list
automatic too...
Might be nice . . . How difficult is it likely to be? I guess it won't be in
place for the initial publication of Deathlord? Or can you adapt a lot of stuff
you've applied to the Illustrations also to the Footnotes?
--
Simon Osborne
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