Annotations

Can I put a hypertext link in an annotation?

Yes and no. Since the Annotate menu uses a normal, everyday Motif text widget for entering and editing annotations, there's no fancy hypertext editing capability -- yet.

However, if you understand HTML, you can freely use anchors in your annotation text (since NCSA Mosaic displays annotations as preformatted text, using the <pre> tag, which recognizes anchors).

Why do you use a layer of indirection for audio annotations? Why not just have the annotation hyperlink point directly at the audio file?

Because then there'd be no way for you to subsequently delete the annotation, using the current scheme of things.

Even though I'm on an SGI (or a Sun, or an HP), the Audio Annotate menubar entry is greyed out. Why?

Because you don't have /usr/sbin/recordaiff (for SGI) or /usr/demo/SOUND/record (for Sun) or /usr/audio/bin/srecorder (for HP) in place; more information is here.

But why do you grey the menu entry out at all?

Because otherwise people would try to do audio annotations on systems that aren't set up to record audio, and (without reading the docs) would send me mail complaining because "Mosaic doesn't work"; this keeps that from happening.

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