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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: docbook vs latex
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:13:48AM +0200, Robert Kr|ger wrote: > > OK and stuff like "in figures 6-12 you see ..." and the problem of having the > word figure always capitalized regardless of whether it is at the beginning > of a sentence or not? I just think the disadvantages of the default handling > of current stylesheets outweigh the advantages but of course that's something > everyone has to decide for themselves so I'll just customize my stylesheets > so they only output the number for an xref and keep my mouth shut about the > issue. Actually, it just so happens that the DocBook Technical Committee has individual xref variations on its agenda. I just submitted a proposal that you might want to look at: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200209/msg00000.html > > > The decision could be made on a per-document basis, with an > > appropriate stylesheet customization :-). For figures, I think it always > > makes sense to generate the word Figure. The edge cases are chapter > > and section, I think. For those, I would never put the word in the > > document, I'd rely on the stylesheet to do the right thing. You get either > > > > See Section 2.3 for... > > > > or > > > > See 2.3 for... > > > > Be seeing you, > > norm > -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@caldera.com
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