At 00:03 07/09/2002, Norman Walsh wrote:
>| I suspect it wouldn't be difficult at all. Most of that work is
>| already done in TDG. Identifying the most important core 25-50
>| elements might be a little tricky,
>
>I tried to identify the core 25-50 elements, I wound up with more than 100.
>Sta
At 22:14 06/09/2002, Norman Walsh wrote:
>/ Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
>[...]
>
>Taking things slightly out of order...
>
>| Just for kicks, how difficult would it be to refactor DocBook into
>| a simple core (based on Simplified DocBook, or the moral equivalent),
>| and imp
/ Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
|On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:14:18PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
|> Quite. Hard that is. And it would introduce N! different "DocBooks".
|> How easy would that be to explain?
|
|I thought it would be difficult. How would I explain N! DocBook DTDs?
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:14:18PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> | Just for kicks, how difficult would it be to refactor DocBook into
> | a simple core (based on Simplified DocBook, or the moral equivalent),
> | and implement the full DTD as mul
/ Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
[...]
Taking things slightly out of order...
| Just for kicks, how difficult would it be to refactor DocBook into
| a simple core (based on Simplified DocBook, or the moral equivalent),
| and implement the full DTD as multiple layers of customi
Adam Turoff wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:24:09PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
>
> Just for kicks, how difficult would it be to refactor DocBook into
> a simple core (based on Simplified DocBook, or the moral equivalent),
> and implement the full DTD as multiple layers of customizations on
>
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:24:09PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> Why is Simplified DocBook easier to use than "full" DocBook?
>
> 1. Because when you open the DTD in emacs and read the content models,
>it's smaller.
>
> 2. Because the user documentation for Simplified lists fewer elements.
>
/ Dave Pawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
| What impact might that have on the stylesheets Norm?
| Divergent sets of stylesheets for pizza slices?
No, no, no. You slice up the pie, you get a strict subset of the whole
pie. The stylesheet for the whole pie can always be applied to the
su
At 21:32 2002 09 05 -0400, ed nixon wrote:
>Paul Grosso wrote:
>>At 15:36 2002 09 05 -0400, ed nixon wrote:
>>>Paul Grosso wrote:
>>A big problem for me is that I still have not seen a satisfactory
>>explanation of the user requirement(s) that is(are) driving this
>>discussion.
>
>You are rig
At 20:42 2002 09 06 +0900, Michael Smith wrote:
>Anyway, about the question at the end of number 3 above -- But what will
>that do to interchange? -- It seems like interchange isn't an issue if
>
> * the customized DTDs are strict subsets of the complete DTD
>
> * and users/user communities trea
At 12:42 06/09/2002, Michael Smith wrote:
>Anyway, about the question at the end of number 3 above -- But what will
>that do to interchange? -- It seems like interchange isn't an issue if
>
> * the customized DTDs are strict subsets of the complete DTD
>
> * and users/user communities treat the
hello,
i finally managed to get a footer the way i wanted it
to be. allthough it wasn't that easy :(
now i am still struggling with two other issues.
1) i don't like the set's titlepage layout
2) footer/header are not justified in the same
way as text paragraphs.
maybe you are able to he
Hi,
thanks to norm who wrote this beatiful chunkfast.xsl "just in time".
I am writing a customization which can give docbook authors the
possibility to chunk section manual by including a http://nwalsh.com/chunk.xsl and http://nwalsh.com/chunkfast.xsl
posted earlier today and is only tested
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:39:25AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> 3. Some sort of "pizza cutter" a la TEI could be invented to allow
> selection of "just the right" elements. (But what will that do to
> interchange?!)
People tempted by this approach may want to get a look on the
dtd-customizer spec
[this is a long posting -- I didn't have time to make it more concise]
Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The recent thread about DocBook and LaTeX raised the issue of the size
> of DocBook (measured as the number of elements). (It's not the first
> thread to raise the issue, just the mo
>From: Doug du Boulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: docbook vs latex
>Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 19:03:22 +0900
>
>the tag cleanly separates the actual mathematics from
>the surrounding paragraph information. Contrast that with the
>relegation of maththeorem to a p
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