docbook: Alternative to tag in Docbook
Subject:
Re: Alternative to tag in Docbook
From:
Hal Burgiss ####@####.####
Date:
5 Aug 2002 04:08:10 -0000
Message-Id: <20020805000809.F3765@feenix.burgiss.net>
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 09:40:37PM -0500, John R. Daily wrote:
>
> If you already have a CSS stylesheet, the last option would
> clearly be the simplest, and in general feels like the best
> solution to me.
One more option might be simplelist which does not have the extra line
breaks like itemizedlist (at least with the stylesheets that seem to
be commonly distributed). But you loose some of the nice list type
formatting of itemizedlist. If the line lengths are short, you can
sort of simulate it like:
<simplelist>
<member>
▪ Item 1
</member>
<member>
▪ Item 2
</member>
<member>
▪ Item 3
</member>
</simplelist>
Another issue is whether you control the build and/or presentation
environments. If you distribute the source (even with customized
stylesheets), there probably isn't any way to guarantee how they'll
look. And arguably shouldn't be a major concern anyway.
But I agree that css is a nice way to spice things up. As an example
of subtle, but nice differences done with css:
http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/appendix.html
Scroll down to the Anatomy section and see how the <guibutton> tags
turn out :) (Not my idea btw, but it is a nice touch IMO.)
--
Hal Burgiss
