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Subject: Bibliographic/title references in shortdesc
DITA 1.0/1.1 does not provide the ability to appropriately format book and movie titles within a short description. For example, consider the following short descriptions: "This document summarizes the key points of 'Guide to XML Design' by John Smith" or "A critical review of 'Star Wars'". In either case, "Guide to XML Design" or "Star Wars" should be italicized or underlined (or quoted if no other options exist). Clearly, <i> and <u> are not appropriate, as this decision must be left to the XML processor. <cite> is not supported in a <shortdesc>. Abstract could be used, but the above examples are short descriptions, and should be processed as such (summaries in the TOC, for example). Specialization is a poor solution for such an elementary typographic standard. What is needed is either 1) support for <cite> in <shortdesc> (among others) or 2) an inline element for designating the titles of works. Jeremy Siadal Technical Support Manager Intel Cluster Ready Program Intel Corporation
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