On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:07:00PM +0100, Daniel Barlow wrote:
> > This is pretty clear. Now my question is would a HOWTO be considered a
> > book or an article or shouldn there be another category called HOWTO ?
>
> Depends :-)
>
> The BOOK/ARTICLE distinction is based entirely on whether the end
> document will be a DocBook BOOK or ARTICLE. The difference is in
> which elements you will use.
>
> How to choose? Someone with more DocBook experience than me will be
> along shortly, I expect, but my take on it is that a BOOK is anything
> long enough to need an index, and an ARTICLE is shorter than that.
> Most existing HOWTOs are probably ARTICLEs - or would be if they were
> in DocBook.
Pretty much it. Basically, a book will have chapters, an article
doesn't.
N
