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Subject: Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Necessity for paragraph markup in HDITA lists
Some very good points, Don. Again, keep in mind that the existing examples had to adapt to the preliminary implementations of HDITA, MarkDITA, and XDITA built into the OT by Michael, Mark, Jarno, and me…. so they are imperfect and buggy… but they work for presentation purposes. In the original experiment (Jekyll-based), topic titles were automatically generated with liquid variables, but Jarno’s HDITA plugin did not incorporate any automation; hence the repeating title. You are right: we could and can simplify specialized sections in HDITA. How about if something like <section data-hd-class="task/steps-informal”> becomes <section data-hd-class="steps”> and something like <section data-hd-class="topic/example”> becomes just <section data-hd-class=“example”>? Of course, I am not opposed to experimenting with custom tags to just extend sections and keep things simple. Another potential blasphemy is to keep all Lightweight DITA flavors in just generic “topic" and then specialize sections (in XDITA or HDITA, say, a topic could have a <section-steps> if needed; no need to create a task). I wonder if Michael and the sub-committee are ok with us (Don, Carlos, and some other geeks) playing this summer with improving our XDITA, HDITA, and MarkDITA mappings as a big step in releasing a formal SC recommendation. Since the DITA NA presentation, I have been receiving emails asking if this is “ready,” and our buggy preliminary implementations need this kind of love. This summer I am more than happy to work on this because a) I love my Lightweight DITA and b) also because this is my main research project, and summer is the time for big research when you are faculty. Best, Carlos --- Carlos Evia, Ph.D. Director of Professional and Technical Writing Associate Professor of Technical Communication Department of English Center for Human-Computer Interaction Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 (540)200-8201
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