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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook: lists within lists
Norman Walsh wrote: > / Brendan J Simon <Brendan.Simon@ctam.com.au> was heard to say: > | It seems I can only put lists within certain types of lists. ie. any > | lists that uses the <listitem> element can contain any type of list. I > | am trying to put a segmentedlist within a segmentedlist but it seems the > | docbook specification does not allow this. > | Is this correct ? > | Are there any work arounds ? > > No one has ever asked for nested segmented lists, or lists > within segmented lists. I don't recall if they are absent by > design or oversight. Can you explain why you want to do this? What's so unusual about having a list within a list ? A segmentedlist is no different to any other type of list, as far as I'm concerned. > | Is there anyway to make the different list types more generic in there > | syntax. I would like to be able to change to a different list type by > | just changing the outer level markup tag/s. ie. change sortedlist to > | orderedlist to segmentedlist to simplelist ..... > > ItemizedList and OrderedList can be changed back and forth that way, > because they are basically isomorphic. The structure of VariableList > and SegmentedList are completely different, it wouldn't make sense to > try to "quickly" turn them into numbered lists or bulleted lists. I am new to DocBook and the structure of the segmentedlist seems a bit unintuative to me. I probably am misusing it or misunderstanding the purpose of the segmentedlist. To me, all the different list types perform the same role, with a different output style. Anyway, I've changed the document to use itemized lists instead. I just use <emphasis> to get my keyword emphasised. BTW : <emphasis role="bold"> doesn't still causes italics output for me. Is this correct ? Thanks, Brendan Simon.
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