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Subject: Re: docbook: about paragraphs, cross-references, indexes
FWIW, I like these suggestions. Roy.Gardiner@natwest.com said: > 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 Another way of handling the above, and I've thought very little about this, might be `title-less sections'. I'm not sure whether this is even possible. The idea is that the section markup would indicate thematic breaks. Sections are recursive so sub-themes could be handled. I assume your statement "attibute...to indicate the importance" would also handle sub-thematic content. Conceptually, theme breaks are not paragraph level things. It seems to me a theme comprises a block of paragraphs--just like a section. Again, I like what you've said. Structural information is part of the content. -- Mike Sangrey msangrey@BlueFeltHat.org Landisburg, Pa. "The first one last wins." "A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
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