Re: [docbook-apps] section in sidebar?

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Scott,
Another approach might be to use the new annotations feature in DocBook 
5.0.  You could create a system of annotations to indicate which sections 
are intended for sidebars, and the stylesheet could respond to that.  The 
annotations would indicate that certain sections are not part of the main 
flow.  That would be similar to using a role attribute, but might be a bit 
more flexible.

I'm curious about how you intend to handle the table of contents.  Would 
these sidebar sections be excluded?  Would the sidebar be included in the 
TOC?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Hudson" <scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com>
To: "David Cramer (Tech Pubs)" <dcramer@motive.com>
Cc: "Scott Hudson" <scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com>; "Colin Shapiro" 
<cmshapiro@gmail.com>; "Keith Fahlgren" <abdelazer@gmail.com>; 
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] section in sidebar?


> Hi David,
>
> I thought of that, but I've seen several cases of nested sections (2 
> levels deep), so I think I still need a way to add section to sidebar...
>
> Best regards,
>
> --Scott
>
> David Cramer (Tech Pubs) wrote:
>>> The problem isn't the sidebar, but the fact that this sidebar content 
>>> has sub sections with titles, and the current model doesn't support 
>>> that.
>>
>> Scott,
>> I haven't been reading this thread so I don't know all the context, but
>> seeing this para I wonder if using bridgeheads in the sidebar could work
>> for you. You don't get true, contained subsections, but the visual
>> effect would be what you want with no need to tweak the dtd or xslts.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>
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