On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:19:29 +1100
Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Docbook, and therefore asciidoc is a *content* markup, not a
> presentation markup.  So asciidoc doesn't know anything about fonts or
> other presentation information.  This is what allows the same content
> to be used to generate lots of differing output formats.  

That's OK...I did few books in LyX/LaTeX which is also mostly content
markup, but it's possible to influence presentation as well.

> But the docbook "role" attribute is intended to mark items that have
> particular semantics.  The toolchains usually can be configured to
> render these differently, eg in a different font.  But you would still
> have to do something like that suggested by the dblatex folks to
> configure their toolchain to do so, eg something like:

I see...

> Role can be specified as an attribute on most blocks eg paragraphs and
> can be applied to a piece of text within a paragraph with unquoted
> quotes, see http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X51.

That would be fine...The manual says: "Quoted text can be prefixed with
an attribute list. The first positional attribute (role attribute) is
translated by AsciiDoc to an HTML span element class attribute or a
DocBook phrase element role attribute.", but it would be nice to have
some example for DocBook output.


Sincerely,
Gour

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