discuss: Revision History, Revisited (Again)
Subject:
Re: Revision History, Revisited (Again)
From:
Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
Date:
23 Jan 2004 21:42:34 -0000
Message-Id: <1074894125.27764.39.camel@mysticchild>
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 12:42, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:24:06PM -0800, Tabatha Marshall wrote:
> > For those who are uncomfortable with the space consumption, keeping at
> > least one or two of the most recent rev entries at the top and storing
> > the rest in an appendix, like you suggest above, is probably the
> > cleanest way of handling it.
>
> The cleanest way of handling it is to fix the DSSSL so that only a
> specific number of revision history items are displayed. It is very
> important to remember that DocBook is structural. Anything to do with
> presentation should be done by the transformation tools! You should not be
> altering the DocBook of a document to get the visual markup you want.
>
> You should be able to add a DSSSL instruction to the actual DocBook which
> would flag the transformation too to show only "5" (or whatever) items
> from the revision section. If we have a DSSSL person around they should
> be able to answer this for us.
Now THAT would definitely be the best solution, and the perfect way to
minimize the list of revisions without taking anything away from the
source, or using any tags improperly.
Any volunteers?
Tab
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Tabatha Marshall
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