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Subject: Re: [docbook] Dividers and fleurons


I don't know what others think, but the answer seems obvious to me:
<section>

All you have to do is change the XSLT so that sections are rendered
with the dividers you want.

On 1/29/07, Jukka Aho <jukka.aho@iki.fi> wrote:
> In certain types of print publications (say, opinion pieces written by a
> columnist for a weekly magazine or a newspaper) it is fairly typical
> that the author may organize his paragraphs into logical sections
> _without_ using subheadings.
>
> Instead, we may see a (more or less) graphical divider - often something
> simple, like these three asterisks, centered on a single line:
>
> * * *
>
> (Large round dots - such as U+25CF - or squares are also often seen
> instead of asterisks.)
>
> A similar practice can be encountered in books - especially old ones -
> where flower or leaf motifs (properly called "fleurons") may be used at
> the end of chapters, or for divisions within a chapter. Here are some
> fonts which contain such motifs...
>
>  <http://www.myfonts.com/browse/keyword/fleuron/>
>
> ...and here's an article which discusses the topic:
>
>  <http://www.wijnne.com/w/typography.html>
>
> * * *
>
> Now, my question becomes: what is the semantically correct way of
> marking up these kind of logical divisions within a DocBook (XML)
> document?
>
> In HTML documents, the closest logical markup equivalent would appear to
> be <hr> - the horizontal rule - but I could not find anything quite like
> that in DocBook. The only thing I could come up with was the
> <bridgehead> element, but I'm a bit undecided about it - is it
> appropriate to use it that way, or is there a better alternative?
>
> --
> znark
>
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