From: "Jirka Kosek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Egon Schmid wrote:
> > Jirka, please don´t make changes for the rendering of the "see also" > > notes until there is a solution for the incomplete PDF manuals. IMHO > > it is an overkill. > You mean: overkill = too much markup? Yes. > In general you are right, but marking some block as "seealso" can be > very usefull when rendering and converting to other formars (e.g. HTML > Help). Handling role="seealso" on para will be possible but much more > harder then on note. Using note as a container allows you to use > simplelist if you want some longer list of functions or whatever else be > seealso-ed. I don´t have something against a rendering a "see also" block. But rendering the content with a list would be a nightmare. We had a discussion at which place should be comma in this list. This depends on the language and I can guess it will be look very funny in Arabic. > Ultimately, you guys (Egon, Goba, Harmut) should agree on correct markup > pattern. I just offered my opinion from DocBook markup point of view. If Goba and Hartmut ignores me, so we will have never a agreement. > > It is much better to write the "see also" notes > > as before. Indeed it will be too complex if you consider the other > > languages with different rules for rendering. > I see no problem here, if you are afraid of localizations of "see also" > this is not problem as there is localization for this string already > present in stylesheets. You can do so, but don´t make a list. -Egon
