Re: [docbook] is there any way to code genus & species names in docbook XML

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>]

Gisbert Amm wrote:

 > [...] you could simply use some
 > non-semantic inline markup like <emphasis></emphasis> to get the genus
 > and species names italic.

I *no way* can or should you rely on getting italic text for emphasized 
text. You simply can not express this wish in DocBook. Luckily. DocBook 
is a doument markup language, not a layout, presentation, design, style, 
or graphics language.

I also don't think he wants to emphasize the words he mentioned.

Sure you can state that all emphasized text should be rendered in 
italicized glyphs, but you do that in something like XSL (XSLT 
generating XSLFO), or in CSSheets styling (X)HTML documents generated 
from the DocBook sources.

Original poster:
   "I want to code some genus & species names in italic format."

Perhaps try

DBX:
<phrase role="genusname">...
<phrase role="speciesname">...

(X)HTML:
<span class="phrase role-genusname">...
<span class="phrase role-speciesname">...
CSS:
.role-genusname,
.role-speciesname,
{font-style: italic}

Tobi

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