Hello, Yes, an allowed section element directly under book or part would be great. OTOH, I don't want to modify, so perhaps I'll resort to article then. Any disadvantages using article for lengthy publications of this type?
Mats 2014-11-18 15:38 GMT+01:00 Aaron DaMommio <[email protected]>: > Mats, > This is something I've been thinking about. I've considered modifying our > schema to allow section to appear at the root of books....and then kludging > that to work downstream by simply converting, in a preprocessing step, the > first level of sections to chapters. > > One could use DocBook 5.1 assemblies to get around the limitations of > sections, by transforming them as needed into other elements. But I keep > thinking that our system would be simpler if we routinely used sections > everywhere. > > I guess it's obvious that it would be simpler. But I think the > simplification would be worth it. > > We typically author books which are consumed as pdfs and as chunked html; > the chunked html is used more; and the chunked html makes book-oriented > elements like prefaces and appendices less prominent and less important. So > I think the tradeoff of not having other elements at the root of the book > would be worthwhile. > --Aaron DaMommio >
