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[docbook] Re: Ruminations on the future of DocBook
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: Pierre Machard <pmachard at tuxfamily dot org>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:45:21 -0400
- Subject: [docbook] Re: Ruminations on the future of DocBook
- References: <878yspd1hn.fsf@nwalsh.com> <3ED69922.4090306@marco-inc.com><20030530154432.GD2795@twinette.migus.eu.org>
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/ Pierre Machard <pmachard@tuxfamily.org> was heard to say:
| Le jeudi 29 mai 2003 ?à 18:34 -0500, Jeff Biss a ?écrit :
| [...]
|> For example why have <note>,
|> <important>, <caution>, <warning>, <tip>? Maybe a single tag could have
|> been used with the differences being made with role:
[...]
| I would like to add a few words about your suggestion. As far as I know,
| a lot of attributes like role=blabla are not always displayed or
| considered.
The base stylesheets *can't* consider role. The role attribute is
specifically designed for user extension. The other attributes (class,
type, etc.) do generally influence the presentation.
| The syntax itself (the DTD) is very comprehensive, the most difficult
| aspect, is the rendering. Don't you agree with that ?
I agree that stylesheet customization is a problem for many users.
Be seeing you,
norm
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