Re: HTML default appearance with DocBook 4.1 --- "improvement"???

[Jorge Godoy <godoy at conectiva dot com>]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> / Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com> was heard to say:
> | (questions related to articles written with DocBook 4.1 and processed
> |  with Jade and Norm's DSSSL stylesheet 1.54 --- with and without
> |  specifying a class for articles)
> | 
> | With DocBook 3.1 I get a title and a block with people addresses and
> | e-mails. With DocBook 4.1, I get a paragraph (<p>) with the title, in
> | red, and another paragraph with people author names. Is this the new
> | expected behaviour for the 4.1 version of DocBook???
> 
> No, I think this is fixed. The DSSSL stylesheets didn't understand
> articleinfo.

I'm using 1.54 stylesheets and I haven't seen nothing on articleinfo
on them (rgrep articleinfo *). 

I think the problem is still there... Or is the fix on a 1.55
stylesheet (not present on your website)? 

> | The last thing, with my first experiences with 4.1, is that it's
> | definind fonts to be used. I think that this should be left to CSS
> | stylesheets or any other postprocessing tool. I had to duplicate many
> | of my CSS declarations just to override the <font> HTML element...
> 
> The <font> element is only output when the stylesheet encounters
> a tag that isn't mapped. It indicates a stylesheet error.

Hmmmmmmmm.... Then it's interesting. :-) It should be associated with
a <b> element to make it more visible. :-) I liked that. 


Thanks,
-- 
Godoy. <godoy@conectiva.com>

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