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Subject: RE: [dita] bookmap specialization question
Hi, Amber:
In the preface case, the bookmap is assigning a role to a topic. Without knowing the topic's role, a process can't apply special treatment to the preface topic. Examples of that special treatment might be as trivial as outputting a "Preface" label on the page or as sophisticated as applying special weight to high-frequency words from the preface when generating a fulltext search index for a book.
For the cover of the book, bookmap certainly needs to capture all of the information that should appear on the cover. After that, however, the layout of the cover is up to the process (as part of the separation of presentation and content).
Hoping that clarifies,
Erik Hennum
ehennum@us.ibm.com
"Amber Swope" <amber.swope@xmetal.com>
11/17/2006 11:43 AM |
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Salutations, Amber:
I think the expectation is that the book information provides everything needed to generate cover and title pages and that, like all presentation, the specification of the layout of the cover pages should be separate from the content of the book.
A question is whether there might be easy ways for adopters to define that layout -- but that question could be investigated separately without slowing down the completion of bookmap.
Hoping that's interesting,
Erik Hennum
ehennum@us.ibm.com
"Amber Swope" <amber.swope@xmetal.com>
11/17/2006 08:44 AM |
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