Re: DOCBOOK: simple question about a choice of markup element

[BigSmoke <bigsmoke@home.nl>]

On Thursday 01 August 2002 00:04, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   what's the appropriate inline markup to use for a term that is just
> being introduced for the first time?  for example, "before you start
> the procedure, you must first go out a buy a widget.  a widget is <insert
> explanation here>..."                        ^^^^^^
>
>   normally, such terms are shown in italics, and philosophically, i
> don't think this should be an <emphasis> element.  and i don't see
> any other tag that seems to fit here.  comments?

As described on http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/firstterm.html,
there is a firstTerm element.

Good luck!

 - BigSmoke

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