Re: [docbook] Re: Tables, braille and other stuff

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com>]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:52:35AM +0200, Steinar Bang wrote:
> >>>>> Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk> writes:
> > The information is: This product has these features.
> 
> >    Display list is another presentation option?
> 
> Possibly.  Though I find a feature matrix easier to interpret, and do
> comparisons in.

Yes, mostly because you can use your eyes.  I guess blind people would
find the list rendering much more adapted !

Maybe such a matrix of boolean values would have other uses than
feature matrices, with the "version >= X" possibly being generalized
as some sort of "condition" attribute ?  Even in the field of feature
comparison, I can imagine the need to say something like "GNOME had
this feature from version 1.4 included to 2.0 excluded" - damn it what
a mess :)

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