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Re: [docbook] Re: marking up 'aside's

From: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail dot com>
To: Nikolai Weibull <docbook-list at pcppopper dot org>
Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:50:03 -0500
Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: marking up 'aside's
References: <5d44f72f040915213830e3d199@mail.gmail.com> <20040916132152.GB2817@puritan.pcp.ath.cx>
Reply-to: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail dot com>

I realize why he's doing it. However, there are several other ways to
make the same point: parentheses, footnotes, small popup windows,
&mdash;es, etc. I  think that it'd be good to be able to mark up the
semantics and then let the stylesheet decide the presentation.

So I'm wondering what the right markup is for those semantics.

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:21:52 +0200, Nikolai Weibull
<docbook-list@pcppopper.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure, but I think hes simply making a point about it being an
> aside, i.e., accentuating the paragraph as such
> 
> <aside>like this being an aside in a non-XML document, just using syntax
> that many people are familiar with.</aside>
>         nikolai

-- 
Jeffrey Yasskin
http://jeffrey.yasskin.info/

References:
- [docbook] marking up 'aside's
  - From: Jeffrey Yasskin
- [docbook] Re: marking up 'aside's
  - From: Nikolai Weibull

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