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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: "jargon" element?
begin A.R. (Tom) Peters quotation: > I have been using DocBook a lot lately to write material for a Linux class > I teach. The text mainly is in Dutch, but I have to use a lot of > technical terms that come from English. I tag these with > <foreignphrase>; the usual stylesheets emphasize these. However, I feel > that this is not the fully appropriate way of tagging these terms. For > instance, if I were to translate these texts into English, I still would > want to mark these words for being technical terms, especially on first > occurrence, for instance for indexing. > > So is there an appropriate tag for things like these in DocBook (I could > not identify one)? > > If nothing appropriate yet exists, is is conceivable to introduce an > in-line element <jargon> or <technicalTerm> or something similar? how about <foreignphrase role="jargon"> or <phrase role="jargon">? -md
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