Re: [docbook-apps] HTML5 HR thematic break for docbook: how?

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Given their definition, I would use DocBook's bridgehead to indicate 
such thematic shifts.  It comes with the advantage of telling the reader 
what the shift actually is.  I suppose if that is too much information, 
you could enter and empty bridgehead and render it with your stylesheet 
as an HR.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 5/3/2016 4:00 PM, Robert Nagle wrote:
> Hi, there,
>
> I noticed that in HTML 5 the semantic definition for HR has been changed
> to mean "thematic break."
> See: https://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/hr.html
>
> "Some examples of thematic breaks that can be marked up using the hr
> element include a scene change in a story, or a transition to another
> topic within a section of a reference book."
>
>
>  That is probably for the best because in many narratives you have
> informal breaks between paragraphs (sometimes with separators, sometimes
> not).
>
> When producing epub files,  I have just attached a style class to a para
> and used that to format section breaks. That is not wrong, but it is not
> ideal.
>
> For the record, it seems unclear if the current  ebook reading systems
> support css for HR well enough that would justify using it now. (In
> fact, I'm going to test that for my next ebook). But it doesn't seem
> that there is any equivalent element in docbook, and that I have enough
> instances  where I'm yearning to have one.
>
> (I suppose I could use a processing instruction to insert an HR though).
>
> rj
>
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