Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Norman Walsh wrote:

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> / Joachim Ziegler <ziegler@algorilla.de> was heard to say:
> | Exercises occur much more frequently as a building block than descriptions of 
> | destructors., I think. That's why I was wondering why there is no special tag 
> | for it.
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> In computer hardware and software documentation? Maybe. Maybe not.
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> Exercises seem more like a teaching tool, an extension for tutorial
> documentation, perhaps. Still, the question has come up before. I
> wonder what else fits in that category?

i've asked before what would be appropriate for a set of exercises
as well.  i'm using docbook to rewrite a bunch of courseware manuals,
and there are frequent exercises every few pages for the students to
test what they've (supposedly) just learned.

so i'm interested in suggestions as well.

rday