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Subject: Re: [docbook] Variables in DocBook with the XSL stylesheets
You could use <varname role="math">, and then your stylesheet could distinguish the two usages. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting bobs@sagehill.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sven Moritz Hallberg" <pesco@gmx.de> To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 12:55 AM Subject: [docbook] Variables in DocBook with the XSL stylesheets > Hi List, > > when writing something in DocBook today, I found myself using a > variable in the mathematical sense, i.e. not a program variable. As in > the sentence "Let n be a natural number.". Using <varname> around the > 'n' typesets it in monospace while in such cases italic would be more > appropriate. Is there an element other than <varname> for such "natural > language variables" which I have overlooked or how would I deal with > this? Changing the stylesheet for <varname> is not an option because I > also have program variables that I want to keep in monospace. > > Thanks in advance, > Sven Moritz > > >
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