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RE: Target is only technical docs?
- From: David Cramer <david_cramer at broadjump dot com>
- To: timte878 at student dot liu dot se, Carlos Araya <carlos at cvc dot edu>,docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:30:09 -0600
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Target is only technical docs?
Oh yeah...I forgot to mention: for an example of the kind of thing I'm
talking about (where you pull the docbook dtd into a specialized dtd and
also piggy back of of existing xsls), study the slides and website dtds
and xsls:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/
So I guess the short answer to your question is "yes" :)
David
-----Original Message-----
From: David Cramer
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:19 PM
To: Carlos Araya; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Target is only technical docs?
Tim,
The modular design of the dtd also makes it easy to pull parts into
another dtd of
your own creation. For example, you might create a resume.dtd that at
some points allows docbook paras (and the paras take the standard
docbook inlines). See http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch05.html. I do
know of a resume dtd <https://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlresume>, but
unfortunately it doesn't use docbook in this way, so one of its
weaknesses is a lack of inline elements. I've been meaning to post that
as a suggestion for that project.
David
<snip>
> > I'm wondering what ideas there are for DocBook. Will
> DocBook only have
> > books and articles as targets, or will I soon be able to
> write letters,
> > CVs etc. with DocBook?
> >
> > I just started to use DocBook and I like the ideas of it,
> but it'd be
> > nice if I could use it for all my writing, e.g. recipes, letters and
> > other kinds of documents.
> >
> > Are there any plans on making DocBook the only word
> processing program
> > you need?