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Re: Why are legalnotices dropped?
- From: Scott Bolte <scott at niss dot com>
- To: Dave Pawson <daveP at dpawson dot freeserve dot co dot uk>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:13:34 -0600
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Why are legalnotices dropped?
- List-id: <docbook.lists.oasis-open.org>
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:19:23 +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:
> At 11:47 29/11/2001 -0600, Scott Bolte wrote:
>
> > At this point I'm going to abandon the use of legalnotice
> > and use a warning or something else that will highlight
> > the importance of the message. Before I do that though,
> > I'd like to make sure I'm not missing some reliable way to
> > get the notices included, and to ask what the logic is
> > behind not including a legal notice.
>
> Same logic as specifying most 'front page stuff'.
> Your needs are different to mine, his, hers and mostly everyone else's.
>
> Hence what I want for 'my' docbook output is fully specified in my own
> (not the downloaded docbook stylesheets) stylesheets which then
> override and include Norms styling.
Dave,
I'm not challenging the architectural design that allows
local stylesheets to override, yet build on, the default
stylesheets. (Though it is obvious that I am not yet facile
enough with them for me to realize that was the answer to
my first question.) I think it is great, though I would
rather minimize the auxiliary tasks necessary to create
the documents. That will improve the chances that my
successor will be able to maintain what I create.
My larger question was, I guess, philosophical. The reason
I tried legalnotice in the first place was because I assumed
it would be used for important stuff, stuff that will be
faithfully reproduced in all typical output formats. I
was taken aback to have my "This is a draft copy" disclaimer
disappear and wanted to know why.
I have a copy of the definitive guide (Thanks Norm!) and
will dig into the section on overriding stylesheets.
Scott