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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: sect1 in preface
/ Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com.br> was heard to say: | On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 03:48:55PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: | > 1. Does that make the problem clear? | | Yes, it does. | I asked because on "The Definitive Guide" the description for | informalfigure say: "A untitled figure" (I'm not a native speaker, but | shouldn't it be "An untitled figure"?). For informal elements, there | should be also the information that they are unnumbered. Yep. Thanks. Fixed. | Isn't it possible to include another information telling if you can or | cannot make cross references to each element? It would improve the | book. But it's a stylesheet issue not a DocBook markup issue. In a print environment, I could make cross references to informal objects if I wanted to, by saying "the figure on page xxx" or something. Maybe. And online, I could makeup the hot text if I wanted to. | > 2. What semantic do you _wish_ were implemented? :-) | | I'll use the link option you gave before but, a good implementation | would be making the title element of figure (not informalfigure!) | optional. No! No! No! The point of formal objects is that they <emphasis>have</emphasis> titles. | If there's no title, there'll be only the figure number and | then I can make a xref to it. I think that this is the best | option. Ok, what you're really asking for then is numbering of informal objects. That could be done. Cheers, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | My fate cannot be mastered; it can http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | only be collaborated with and Member, DocBook Editorial Board | thereby, to some extent, directed. | Nor am I the captain of my soul; I | am only its noisiest | passenger.--Aldous Huxley
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