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Subject: RE: [docbook] Custom tags in Docbook



What needs to be custom ?

<guibutton> is an existing docbook element.......




Uncertainly,
Richard.
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oscar Pereira [mailto:oscar.pereira@anubisnetworks.com] 
> Sent: 22 January 2008 00:31
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook] Custom tags in Docbook
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am a novice user of Docbook, who has just subscribed this 
> list hoping 
> to see answered a question that a lot of googling could not. 
> I was just 
> tasked with completing a docbook document (using xml) that 
> someone else 
> had already drafted. As I analysed that document, I found that word 
> emphasis were being done with <emphasis> tags, throughout the 
> document. 
> I found this odd because, some of the words represent classes 
> of data, 
> that should have a coherent formatting. I have some experience using 
> LaTeX, and one of the first things you learn is how to define 
> commands 
> for specific things (which is rather simple to achieve). Making the 
> transition from commands to tags, I was hoping there would 
> some equally 
> simpler way of defining tags that could be applied to custom 
> classes of 
> data. This way, instead of writing 
> <emphasis>search</emphasis>, I would 
> like to write something like <guibutton>search</guibutton>. 
> This way, if 
> at a later time it was found that gui buttons should be 
> written in bold, 
> changing it would be simple: which is not the case is you use 
> <emphasis> 
> all document long (and for other things that are "gui buttons" in my 
> example). Googling for a way to do this yielded a lot of things about 
> dtds and xsl, but nothing that answered my question. Is there 
> a way to 
> do this? Or I making some error regarding the way DocBook 
> should be used 
> (perhaps from my previous background working with LaTeX)?
> 
> Please note that I have a somewhat limited knowledge of XML 
> and XSL, and 
> so I was really looking for a simple solution...
> 
> Thanks in advance (and apologies for the long mail),
> Oscar
> 
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