Re: Images for an etext

> Hmm, it would be much better if graphic *contained* the description,
> depending on which DTD is in use:
> <graphic href="...">
> <p>Alice squished up inside a dolls' house,
> and <emphasis>utterly</emphasis> unable to use her Palm Pilot</p>
> </graphic>

Yes, i think you are correct here, we must address this issue in the new
DTD's

> Obviously, you can't scan images from the annotated alice,
> unless the edition explicitly gives permissiom.  I have an
> out of copyright copy with the tennial illustrations, and at one
> time Project Gutenberg had them too I think.

Now that is interesting. Is it  the reproduction which is copyrighted as
opposed to the artistic content of the reproduction?

Frank

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From: Liam Quin <liam(at)holoweb.net>
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Subject: Re: Images for an etext


> > Use the graphic,
> > <graphic desc="picture from through the looking glass"
> > href="alicepict.png"/>
>
> Hmm, it would be much better if graphic *contained* the description,
> depending on which DTD is in use:
> <graphic href="...">
> <p>Alice squished up inside a dolls' house,
> and <emphasis>utterly</emphasis> unable to use her Palm Pilot</p>
> </graphic>
>
> The benefit is that then you can include markup -- for example, an
> image of a chart being replaced by a textual table.
>
> > > I'm currently marking up "Through the Looking Glass", and I'm using an
old
> > > "dead-tree" copy, and a more recent annotated copy ("The Annotated
Alice",
> > > by Martin Gardner), to help me figure out what's what.
>
> Note that Martin's text is, of course, copyright, so if there are
> any differences, you should use the old copy.
>
> Obviously, you can't scan images from the annotated alice,
> unless the edition explicitly gives permissiom.  I have an
> out of copyright copy with the tennial illustrations, and at one
> time Project Gutenberg had them too I think.
>
> >> Is the .png format likely to be best for these pen-and-ink
illustrations,
> >> or would .gif files, which can contain only 2-bit color information
> >> (all that is needed here) be a better choice in this case?
>
> GIF images can contain 8-bit colour, not just 2-bit, but it sounds
> like png is preferred.
>
> You will get a much better scan, owever, if you use greyscales, so that
> the edges of curves are not jagged.
>
> Lee
>
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