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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Bug at SGML DTD? Or at DSSSL stylesheets?
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, ndw@nwalsh.com wrote: > / Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com> was heard to say: >| I think that <para> shouldn't allow elements such as <figure> and >| <table> within it. The same for <mediaobject> and other similar >| elements. > > You can make a customization that is a strict subset of DocBook (and > therefore your instances are DocBook) that prohibits them. > > There are three schools of thought on this issue: > > 1. Figures (and other block-ish) things should appear in paras. > 2. Figures should not appear in paras. > 3. Figures should appear in paras only if they are part of the > paragraph from a semantic point of view. > > I tend to prefer 3 myself, but I've been authoring toward 2 most of > the time because HTML takes position 2. Hmmmm... I prefer 2. I don't see how to make 3 work without mixing information... And 3 would also make positioning harder. >| Back to the problem, is this a bug in the DTD or at the DSSSL >| stylesheets (figures not appearing in LoF)? What can I do to >| correct it? > > I think the release that I'll make tonight or tomorrow morning fixes > this problem. It's related to the broken ToC issue. So I won't have to worry with that? :o) My group did more tests and they reported that it happens whenever the figure is in a list, not just inside a <para>. Thanks for the fast answer. -- Godoy. <godoy@conectiva.com> Departamento de Publicações Conectiva S.A. Publishing Department Conectiva Inc.
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