DOCBOOK: Re: Anonymous block of <para>, control first line indented?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org> was heard to say:
| At 03:35 24/4/02, Peter Ring wrote:
|>   Now the first <para> (or similar body text block) in a <section> (or
|>similar structural division) is easy to catch, but how about the anonymous
|>thematical subdivision of the body text within a <section>? I've tried to
|>find something obviously suitable in DocBook without luck; so far I have
|>been able to come up with the following not-really-obvious hacks:
|
| It sounds like you have multiple sections here.  I would probably redefine 
| <simplesect> to make %sect.title.content; optional, and then use that.

I agree that it sounds like some sort of sectioning would be
appropriate. But if you really don't want to do that, I'd go with a
role attribute on the para.

(I think the empty bridgehead trick is asking for trouble. Stylesheets might,
for example, slap in extra space around the empty head.)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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