discuss: Linuxdoc VS Docbook SGML/XML
Subject:
Re: Linuxdoc VS Docbook SGML/XML
From:
Stein Gjoen ####@####.####
Date:
9 Apr 2002 21:03:19 -0000
Message-Id: <3CA24DE9.3050103@mail.nyx.net>
David Lawyer wrote:
[On LinuxDoc DTD and tables...]
> It does has table markup. I just tried it and it works. But the text
> rendering gave a table where the lines wrapped on an 80 col.screen. The
> html rendering looked better. Almost no one uses tables in linux doc
> since they are not documented in the documentation. They are mentioned
> in the Users Guide but it refers to a url at Cornell which is supposed
> to link to the "Qwertz" manual (which should show how to use tables).
> Unfortunately, the link is dead and when I searched the Internet for the
> manual I kept getting the same dead link. But I'll keep trying.
The HOWTO Template for LinuxDoc gives an example of use of tables
and also shows how it is rendered.
> How did I use a table without documentation? Well, I found a table in a
> qwertz-sgml doc and pasted it into a linuxdoc-sgml doc. The tags used
> are <table>, <tabular>, and <caption> (there may be still more tags for
> tables). Qwertz-sgml is a superset of Linuxdoc and supports math
> symbols, etc. Linuxdoc was created from Qwertz. The Qwertz stuff I
> found on the Internet was about 10 years old.
I must admit I got an example sent to me from someone else.
Tables alsways seem to be a pain to set up, be it in LinuxDoc, HTML
or (La)TeX. The fact that tables are rendered differently in IE and NS
does not help either.
Regards,
Stein Gjoen
