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On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:49:50AM -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 08:29 AM, scarso luigi wrote:
Hence, the only way to specify formatting informations must be in a xml docbook document, not manipulating intermediate stylesheets that will corrupt the portability of a document.
Maybe I misunderstand, but I don't agree. You code for structure in DocBook, but you need the formatting handled externally: in a CSS file for HTML, and a ConTeXt environment/module (I'm not clear on the difference) for PDF via ConTeXt. If not, you lose flexibility.
I agree with this point of view: formatting preferences are expressed by customizing style sheets. I will do my best to enable context's customizations in the docbook module. But it remains a virtual exercise: you customize a TeX file that is never written out. For experienced context users that may be easy. For others that is not a trivial task: They must visualize a file in a language that they do not know well. (In FO it is a bit the same; you do not usually see the FO file, although you can.) Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl