Re: docbook: about paragraphs, cross-references, indexes

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Roy.Gardiner@natwest.com wrote:

> 1) <para>  has no concept of thematic break, meaning they are all formatted
> the same way; in the O'Reilly DocBook, paras are divided by white space. I
> would like to see an attribute allowing the author to indicate the
> importance of the theme change, so that one kind of para might get
> new-line-plus-indent, as in novels and newspapers, another would give one
> line of white space as it does now, another a big chunk of white space, and
> so on

You can add role attribute to para and modify stylesheet.
 
> 3) why can't you request a page reference from xref?

Rendering of xref text is left upon stylesheets. You can very easily
modify both DSSSL and XSL stylesheets to include page numbers.

For example look at common/dbl1en.dsl for (define (en-xref-strings)). In
"macros" for xref text, you can use %p which will be substited by page
number.

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