On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 09:50, Mauritz Jeanson <m...@johanneberg.com> wrote: > | -----Original Message----- > | From: Tom Browder > | > | I think I can probably diddle with style sheet customization > | to do the following, but I would love to be able to do it directly in > DocBook: > > > Doing the things you are asking "directly in DocBook" is not really > possible.
I know, that's my complaint. The current situation reminds me of how the original LaTeX was--locked into Leslie Lamport's idea of the proper style. Eventually, LaTeX became easier to do local, one-off style changes. That's what I believe DB should be marching toward. And I'm not the only one. See this page on the DB Wiki (especially the "Usability" section): http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/WhatIsWrongWithDocBook > | 1. Insert a chunk of text in another language that requires another font. ... > The obvious way to indicate that a portion of text is written in a > particular language is to use the xml:lang attribute. For example: > > <para xml:lang="de">Guten Tag!</para> Thanks, I think that might be easy to customize. > DocBook has a <programlisting> element. If you, for example, wanted > references to every <programlisting> to be included in a "table of listings" > in the rendered output then that is entirely possible; it is a stylesheet > customization issue. Okay. > | 3. Be able to indent the first line of a specific paragraph. > | > | 4. Have the first line of a series of paragraphs in a section not > | indented but the rest indented. This is where being able to add an fo "directive" inside DB would be very handy. > | 5. Be able to insert almost any arbitrary chunk of fo at the block level. > You appear to say that you want to insert FO markup into DocBook documents. > But is that really what you want to do? Yes! Thanks, Mauritz. -Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org