Re: SPEC - Re: Text Proposal

Chris Marrin ([email protected])
Tue, 25 Apr 1995 17:12:03 -0700


On Apr 25, 4:23pm, Gavin Bell wrote:
> Subject: Re: SPEC - Re: Text Proposal
> > >How about a vote on the issue?
> > I'm with Len on this one. Let's put it up to a vote.
>
> I vote no.
>
> The word "annotation" is too vague; are you proposing text that:
>

I agree with Gavin's vote here. The concept of "annotation" (in any of
the forms Gavin suggests) also applies to primitives other than text. I
might want a stop sign where the whole object always faces the viewer, not
the just the enclosed text.

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