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Subject: Re: [docbook] Dividers and fleurons
I don't know what others think, but the answer seems obvious to me: <section> All you have to do is change the XSLT so that sections are rendered with the dividers you want. On 1/29/07, Jukka Aho <jukka.aho@iki.fi> wrote: > In certain types of print publications (say, opinion pieces written by a > columnist for a weekly magazine or a newspaper) it is fairly typical > that the author may organize his paragraphs into logical sections > _without_ using subheadings. > > Instead, we may see a (more or less) graphical divider - often something > simple, like these three asterisks, centered on a single line: > > * * * > > (Large round dots - such as U+25CF - or squares are also often seen > instead of asterisks.) > > A similar practice can be encountered in books - especially old ones - > where flower or leaf motifs (properly called "fleurons") may be used at > the end of chapters, or for divisions within a chapter. Here are some > fonts which contain such motifs... > > <http://www.myfonts.com/browse/keyword/fleuron/> > > ...and here's an article which discusses the topic: > > <http://www.wijnne.com/w/typography.html> > > * * * > > Now, my question becomes: what is the semantically correct way of > marking up these kind of logical divisions within a DocBook (XML) > document? > > In HTML documents, the closest logical markup equivalent would appear to > be <hr> - the horizontal rule - but I could not find anything quite like > that in DocBook. The only thing I could come up with was the > <bridgehead> element, but I'm a bit undecided about it - is it > appropriate to use it that way, or is there a better alternative? > > -- > znark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-help@lists.oasis-open.org > > -- http://chris.chiasson.name/
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