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RE: [docbook] is there any way to code genus & species names in d ocbook XML
- From: Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>
- To: 'Tobias Reif' <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 10:37:10 -0400
- Subject: RE: [docbook] is there any way to code genus & species names in d ocbook XML
> As for the styling:
>
> If you talk about HTML:
> All presentational code is deprecated.
>
> If you talk about XSLFO:
> If the docbook.sourceforge.net stylesheets style "foreignphrase"
> italicized than that's great (since that's what he wanted),
> but the fact
> remains that this styling preference can not be expressed in DocBook.
> The choice and use of DocBook markup should not be driven by default
> styles of a specific stylesheet. You can not rely on getting
> italic text
> for "foreignphrase". You simply and luckily can not express
> this wish in
> DocBook.
I certainly hope that everybody on this list understands that, as it's one
of the principal benefits to using DocBook in the first place. I was just
letting Raju know that a commonly used tool rendered this tagging as he
wanted. My main motivation for suggesting <foreignphrase/> was semantics,
not presentation.
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