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Re: docbook: about paragraphs, cross-references, indexes
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- Subject: Re: docbook: about paragraphs, cross-references, indexes
- From: Mike Sangrey <msangrey at BlueFeltHat dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:35:22 -0400
FWIW, I like these suggestions.
Roy.Gardiner@natwest.com said:
> 1) <para> has no concept of thematic break, meaning they are all
> formatted the same way; in the O'Reilly DocBook, paras are divided by
> white space. I would like to see an attribute allowing the author to
> indicate the importance of the theme change, so that one kind of para
> might get new-line-plus-indent, as in novels and newspapers, another
> would give one line of white space as it does now, another a big chunk
> of white space, and so on
Another way of handling the above, and I've thought very little about
this, might be `title-less sections'. I'm not sure whether this is even
possible. The idea is that the section markup would indicate thematic
breaks. Sections are recursive so sub-themes could be handled. I assume
your statement "attibute...to indicate the importance" would also handle
sub-thematic content.
Conceptually, theme breaks are not paragraph level things. It seems to me
a theme comprises a block of paragraphs--just like a section.
Again, I like what you've said. Structural information is part of the
content.
--
Mike Sangrey
msangrey@BlueFeltHat.org
Landisburg, Pa.
"The first one last wins."
"A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
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