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Re: [docbook] Docbook suggestions
- From: "GARY Hoffman" <GHOFF at eslaw dot com>
- To: <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>,<moller at mollerware dot com>
- Cc: <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>,<TEI-L at LISTSERV dot BROWN dot EDU>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:32:30 -0600
- Subject: Re: [docbook] Docbook suggestions
Chris:
On his website, Norm Walsh discusses the possible integration of
DocBook and TEI (see
http://norman.walsh.name/2003/10/09/dei).
TEI is expressly designed for literary texts. And Sebastian Rahtz has
designed stylesheets that transform TEI documents into FO, which then
permits the use of TeX/LaTeX at the back-end (see
http://www.tei-c.org/Software/passivetex/).
So, what you suggest would be possible, more or less, if this integration were
to occur.
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>>> Chris Moller <
moller@mollerware.com>
12/30/03 08:00PM >>>
From: Chris Moller <
moller@mollerware.com>
Sent: Tuesday,
December 30, 2003 8:00 PM
To: <
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Subject: [docbook]
Docbook suggestions
Priority: Normal
For the last year or so,
I've been putting docbook to a use I don't think it was intended for: writing a
novel. Of course, the "book->chapter->sect1->...->para"
hierarchy doesn't really express the structure of a novel very well -- something
like "book->chapter->scene->para." I've been mapping "scene" to
"sect1", "skip"s to "sect2," etc. This works fairly well, but the semantic
tags don't really match the elements, which, after all, is the whole purpose of
docbook.
So, DocBook Technical Committee, is there any chance of adding a
"novel" hierarchy to the existing "technical document" hierarchy?
Chris
Moller
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Christian
H. L. MollerMoller Software
Development Services, LLC
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