Shape and colour (NOT style stuff) in DocBook 5

/ Martin Holmes <mholmesuvic.ca> was heard to
say:
| mixing display and data, so don't flame me please; the
data itself
| includes information about colour and shape, and I'm
looking for a
| standard way to encode this in DocBook attributes or
elements, if
| possible without abusing existing tags. Does anyone have
any
| suggestions?

Can you provide an example of the sort of thing it is and
what the
shapes and colors mean?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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HI there,

I'm writing an image annotation tool, and users are
selecting areas on 
an image, and adding annotations to them. Annotations can be
categorized 
by function or type, and each category is associated with a
shape 
(spiral, rect, cross, ellipse) which appears on the image,
and a colour 
which is used to draw the shape. I'm using screenshot
elements with 
areas to store the data in docbook (although the app's
native format is 
a combination of TEI and SVG). I need to store the shape and
colour the 
user has associated with each annotation category. The
meaning of the 
shapes and colours is the user's choice; it may be simply
mnemonic or it 
may have broader significance, depending on what they're
doing when the 
annotate the image.

I'd just like to find some standard attribute or element in
which I can 
store a hex colour, and one I can use for descriptive text
for the 
shape. It seems as though a format designed for
documentation should 
have some way of describing colours and shapes, but I just
can't find 
anything.

Cheers,
Martin

Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Martin Holmes <mholmesuvic.ca> was heard to
say:
> | mixing display and data, so don't flame me please;
the data itself
> | includes information about colour and shape, and I'm
looking for a
> | standard way to encode this in DocBook attributes or
elements, if
> | possible without abusing existing tags. Does anyone
have any
> | suggestions?
> 
> Can you provide an example of the sort of thing it is
and what the
> shapes and colors mean?
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
> 

-- 
Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmesuvic.ca)
Half-Baked Software, Inc.
(mholmeshalfbakedsoftware.com)
martinmholmes.com

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Hi there,

Does anyone have any suggestions for this? Is it really the
case that 
there's no way to encode colour information in DocBook?

Cheers,
Martin

Martin Holmes wrote:
> HI there,
> 
> I'm writing an image annotation tool, and users are
selecting areas on 
> an image, and adding annotations to them. Annotations
can be categorized 
> by function or type, and each category is associated
with a shape 
> (spiral, rect, cross, ellipse) which appears on the
image, and a colour 
> which is used to draw the shape. I'm using screenshot
elements with 
> areas to store the data in docbook (although the app's
native format is 
> a combination of TEI and SVG). I need to store the
shape and colour the 
> user has associated with each annotation category. The
meaning of the 
> shapes and colours is the user's choice; it may be
simply mnemonic or it 
> may have broader significance, depending on what
they're doing when the 
> annotate the image.
> 
> I'd just like to find some standard attribute or
element in which I can 
> store a hex colour, and one I can use for descriptive
text for the 
> shape. It seems as though a format designed for
documentation should 
> have some way of describing colours and shapes, but I
just can't find 
> anything.
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin
> 
> Norman Walsh wrote:
>> / Martin Holmes <mholmesuvic.ca> was heard to
say:
>> | mixing display and data, so don't flame me
please; the data itself
>> | includes information about colour and shape, and
I'm looking for a
>> | standard way to encode this in DocBook attributes
or elements, if
>> | possible without abusing existing tags. Does
anyone have any
>> | suggestions?
>>
>> Can you provide an example of the sort of thing it
is and what the
>> shapes and colors mean?
>>
>>                                         Be seeing
you,
>>                                           norm
>>
> 


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