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Subject: Re: [docbook] "Fantasy" markup
At 17:14 01/05/2004, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: >Jason Kircher wrote: > >>Although Docbook looks like it's more geared toward writing technical manuals >I've been thinking the same thing myself. >However, I believe adopting additional tags for different genres of >writing can only lead to madness and perdition. For instance, "spell", >"magicitem", none of those tags have any place in my form of writing. >Instead, terms like "scienceterm", "technology" and "stellarbody" would be >more appropriate. I'm not recommending that these tags be adopted >however, since the vast number of writing styles would overwhelm. Long time ago I remember commenting on Chapter 5 of 'Docbook, the definitive guide', a book about Docbook. Chapter 5 is all about adding spells and magic items and scienceterm and stellarbody tags into docbook. It will take a bit of thinking, and you may not get it right first time, but I guess you'll get lots more out of it when you are done? http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch05.html HTH DaveP
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