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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: docbook vs latex
/ Doug du Boulay <ddb@R3401.rlem.titech.ac.jp> was heard to say: | >On Thursday 05 September 2002 16:30, Matt G. wrote: | Back in January in response to one of your queries | http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200201/msg00010.html | Norm actually suggested that there might be | a separation of DocBook into core and sw/hw specific sections that could | shrink the core DocBook by possibly more than 1/3. | If size was the main issue that would have happened/be happening now. I think the continued interest in Simplified DocBook is good evidence that size is an issue and there is interest in something smaller. The problem I have, personally, is that Simplified is too big and something that's small enough isn't useful. (When I started working on Simplified, I hoped it would have about 40 elements, not about 100.) | I suspect if someone found a need for another two dozen OO programing | concepts they would be in there in a flash. Well...they might get added, but I doubt it would be "in a flash". It was several years after the first requests before the TC produced the first set of OO markup. | Mathematics did seem to be a special case with only a | speculatively modest number of new elements, of arguably, | cross domain value. You speak as if the DocBook TC had rejected a proposal to add new elements for mathematics. I don't believe any such proposal has ever been made. Certainly the TC hasn't rejected it, we haven't even discussed it. Any proposal to add new elements to DocBook is welcome. | P.S. many of the equation examples in TDG utilise the imminently redundant | <graphic/> for the actual rendering. It could be an idea to change that to | <mediaobject> in the future. Yes, updating the book is a work-in-progress. | Not only that but in http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/equation.html | the example is incorrect. Well, if it is right then I just solved Fermat's | equation for N=1. Hmm. Oops. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Nothing can exceed the vanity of http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | our existence but the folly of our Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | pursuits.--Oliver Goldsmith
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