Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DSSSL Variables

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de> was heard to say:
| What's the reason that some variables of the Modular DocBook style sheets
| are enclosed in percent signs, others are enclosed in dollar signs and
| still others are not surrounded by any special signs at all? Is this some
| convention that is followed throughout the style sheets? If so, what's the
| meaning behind all this?

That was a convention started by the previous maintainer. My
understanding was that %-ish things were sortof constants and $-ish
things were sortof functions. I tried for a while to continue the
conventions but eventually gave up, especially when I found that I
wanted to set some of the %-ish ones from the command line and on
Windows that's just a pain because you have to double-escape the
%-sign.

In short, it's not very meaningful and I wish I'd ripped it all out
years ago.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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