[docbook] Re: [docbook-tc] Followup to Norm's write up on numbering.

[Neil Roeth <neil@occamsrazor.net>]

On Jul 19, Jirka Kosek (jirka@kosek.cz) wrote:
 > I would really appreciate if DocBook can contain as less presentational 
 > markup as possible. DocBook was designed as an interchange format which 
 > captures semantics. @linenumberstep attribute doesn't improve semantic, 
 > nor possibilities of interchange.

I agree with Jirka about preserving the semantic nature of DocBook.  If the
specific values for line numbering need to be set, that should be done in a
stylesheet.  If you are really trying to express something like, "this list
replaces a particular section of another list in the document and should be
numbered appropriately", as we saw in one example, then an extension to
DocBook that handles this should allow specifying that a list is a replacement
of part of another, and the stylesheet should figure out the numbering from
that.

Just my two cents as a DocBook user and occasional customizer.

-- 
Neil Roeth