discuss: Revision History, Revisited (Again)


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Subject: Re: Revision History, Revisited (Again)
From: Tobias Reif ####@####.####
Date: 23 Jan 2004 20:56:59 -0000
Message-Id: <20040123205914.GC4230@linux>

Hi Tabatha

On Fri 2004-01-23 Tabatha Marshall wrote:
> I don't want to stir things up about the types of markup and their
> merits or detriments.  But we do need a revhistory in the proper
> place.  Ideally, DocBook would fix the revhistory so it could appear
> within an appendix or another backmatter section.  However, the
> structure of DocBook documents has become a de facto standard, and
> until DocBook's makers change the standards to something else, we
> should be using it as it was designed to be used.

"DocBook's makers" (the DocBook TC [1]) can't "fix the revhistory" if
they don't know about your requirements. If you have suggestions (such
as allowing a certain element in new places/contexts), you can discuss
them at the DocBook list [2] and/or submit an RFE at sf.net [3].

Tobi

[1]
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbook
[2]
http://www.docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DocBookMailingList
[3]
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=384107&group_id=21935&func=browse

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