"Andy Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Joel de Guzman" wrote
>
>> I think such numbering schemes can be done by tweaking the CSS, no?
>
> I dont know. I know you can do simple lists but I'm not sure you can do
> anything
> sophisticated. (Correct me if i'm wrong though ) What I am talking about is
> reference documentation such as the C+ standard. Take for example 17.3.2.1.2.
> in the Standard. You could do something like this by nesting lists but it
> would
> get quite complex and would look like :
>
> 17
> 3
> 2
> 1
> 2
>
> rather than
>
> 17.3.2.1.2
>
>
> The scheme I thought of would look like the following:
> Let me know if the following makes no sense!
> (note that separators can be ,.- space etc)
> (I have omitted any headings after for simpliciy)
>
> quickbook html
>
> [=.=.=-=] 1.1.1-1
> [=.=.=-+] 1.1.1-2
> [=.=.=-+] 1.1.1-3
> [=.=.+.=] 1.1.2-1
>
> To start at para 17.3.2.1.2 do
>
> [=17.=3.=2.=1.=2] 17.3.2.1.2
> [+.] 18.
> [=.=.=] 18.1.1
> [=.=.+] 18.1.2
> [=.+.=] 18.2.1
>
> = means stay the same, + in a column means incr that column and set all
> columns
> to the right of it to 1.
Why should anyone have to manage choosing between = and +?
Why not just something equivalent to what TeX does?
section
subsection
subsubsection
subsubsubsection
subsubsubsubsection
I think we already have that in [section/h1], [h2], [h3], [h4],...
So why should we have to do any extra work? Let the formatting engine
take care of the numbering.
> Other features would be to generate a List of Contents index based
> on the text after these numbering tags. To link to the tags(maybe by
> adding an anchor after the tag) so that the link ( a paragraph
> number e.g " see [17.3.2.1.2] ") is changed in sync if a paragraph
> is added or removed.
This is all part of the job of the tool that translates the DocBook
into its final format (HTML, PDF, etc.)
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