From: Simon Pepping <spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl>
Subject: Re: DocBookInConTeXt customization?
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:11:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021212201146.GB1033@scaprea> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95D4D70A-0DD8-11D7-A0AA-0030657A7050@fastmail.fm>
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:49:50AM -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>
> On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 08:29 AM, scarso luigi wrote:
>
> >Hence, the only way to specify formatting informations
> >must be in a xml docbook document, not manipulating intermediate
> >stylesheets that will corrupt the portability of a document.
>
> Maybe I misunderstand, but I don't agree. You code for structure in
> DocBook, but you need the formatting handled externally: in a CSS file
> for HTML, and a ConTeXt environment/module (I'm not clear on the
> difference) for PDF via ConTeXt. If not, you lose flexibility.
I agree with this point of view: formatting preferences are expressed
by customizing style sheets. I will do my best to enable context's
customizations in the docbook module. But it remains a virtual
exercise: you customize a TeX file that is never written out. For
experienced context users that may be easy. For others that is not a
trivial task: They must visualize a file in a language that they do
not know well. (In FO it is a bit the same; you do not usually see the
FO file, although you can.)
Regards, Simon
--
Simon Pepping
email: spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-12 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-08 15:12 Gour
2002-12-08 15:32 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2002-12-08 19:54 ` Gour
2002-12-08 20:38 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2002-12-08 20:48 ` Gour
2002-12-08 21:09 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2002-12-08 21:14 ` Gour
2002-12-09 20:09 ` Simon Pepping
2002-12-10 16:53 ` Gour
2002-12-10 17:04 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2002-12-10 17:49 ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-11 20:46 ` Simon Pepping
2002-12-12 10:34 ` Gour
2002-12-12 11:41 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2002-12-12 12:31 ` Gour
2002-12-12 13:29 ` scarso luigi
2002-12-12 13:49 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2002-12-12 14:22 ` scarso luigi
2002-12-12 20:11 ` Simon Pepping [this message]
2002-12-13 12:57 ` scarso luigi
2002-12-13 14:32 ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-17 20:54 ` Simon Pepping
2002-12-18 17:42 ` scarso luigi
2002-12-18 19:56 ` Simon Pepping
2002-12-19 12:54 ` scarso luigi
2002-12-19 8:34 ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-12 20:05 ` Simon Pepping
2002-12-08 20:46 ` Hans Hagen
2002-12-08 21:16 ` Gour
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