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Re: [docbook-apps] Abbreviation or aliases
- From: Dave Pawson <davep at dpawson dot co dot uk>
- To: Jacques Foucry <jacques at foucry dot net>
- Cc: Docbook-Apps <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 17:21:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Abbreviation or aliases
- References: <4A750EB9-FFDD-47A3-B429-797CA7D7B130@foucry.net>
- Reply-to: davep at dpawson dot co dot uk
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 16:21 +0200, Jacques Foucry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to use abbreviation or kind of aliases in docbook.
>
> Let me explain : imagine you are writing the documentation of a
> software. The software name is long (Microsoft Excel 2005 for Palm
> Pilot) and it will appears many and many time in the text. Each time
> you type it you can make mistake. So the question is : is it possible
> to define somewhere ME2PP == Microsoft Excel 2005 for Palm Pilot and
> during processing ME2PP will be replaced Microsoft Excel 2005 for
> Palm Pilot, each time.
Yes. If using xml
<!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "path/to/dtd"[
<!ENTITY ME2PP " Microsoft Excel 2005 for Palm Pilot">
]>
later
<para>
Working with &ME2PP; we do ......
HTH
DaveP
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