discuss: TLDP DocBook pages need work - Start there!
Subject:
Re: TLDP DocBook pages need work - Start there!
From:
"Rodolfo J. Paiz" ####@####.####
Date:
26 Nov 2003 23:53:46 -0000
Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.0.20031126175030.025a6f18@mail.simpaticus.com>
At 17:19 11/25/2003, David Lawyer wrote:
>One major functional difference is that DocBook will not let the author
>specify fonts, such as italic, bold, typewriter etc. Linuxdoc has these
>but DocBook doesn't. They're presentation tags, not content tags.
>That's both bad and good. Presentation tags may promote standard
>translations from content to presentation, at least if there are some
>rules for this. Content tags allow anyone to create their own rendering
>of a certain type of content and thus create their own rules. If all
>writers could agree on a standard presentation for certain content, then
>linuxdoc has advantages. Otherwise, the docbook concept of only-content
>tags is better.
Thank you for that excellent explanation (lots more useful stuff deleted),
and thank you for responding professionally instead of emotionally. I did
not mean any offense although I knew the critique was very blunt, and I am
glad to see that you did not take any. Speaks very well of you.
--
Rodolfo J. Paiz
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