Re: [docbook] Clean way to insert a "pause" between blocks ofparagraphs?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ "James J. Ramsey" <jjramsey_6x9eq42@yahoo.com> was heard to say:
| Have you noticed in that the chapters of some books,
| there will be a block of paragraphs on a subject, then
| extra space or a little centered separator symbol
| (maybe a row of dots), and then another block of
| paragraphs, etc. 

There's nothing specifically for this purpose in DocBook. I think
I'd be tempted to just mark some paragraphs as "special":

<para role="newsubject">...</para>

And then tweak the stylesheets to render "newsubject" paragraphs with
extra pre-space or a centered mark.

| Is there something that I missed, either in DocBook or
| TEI?

I don't know about TEI. DocBook is about technical documentation and
I'd be tempted, if I was your editor, to suggest that you find good
titles for those subjects and put them in titled sections instead of
relying on a formatting tweak to carry significant semantic meaning.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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