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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Presentational markup in Docbook
Your message dated: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:57:42 PDT > > DocBook has no specific markup for styles, but you can fake > it with <phrase> and its role attribute. For example: > <phrase role="red">my red text</phrase>. Of course > you have to modify the stylesheet for <phrase> to respond > properly to the "red" role attribute. > True; although it seems to me that an effort should be made to identify just what it is about the phrase it is that makes one want to render it in "red". Perhaps a role attribute value like "realimportant" or "dangerous" or whatever would serve better? The idea is that the same document, printed on a black-and-white laser printer, could still have these phrases formatted to stand out distinctively (underlined, a blackletter typeface...).
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