What needs to be custom ? <guibutton> is an existing docbook element.......
Uncertainly, Richard. > -----Original Message----- > From: Oscar Pereira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 January 2008 00:31 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [docbook] Custom tags in Docbook > > Hi, > > I am a novice user of Docbook, who has just subscribed this > list hoping > to see answered a question that a lot of googling could not. > I was just > tasked with completing a docbook document (using xml) that > someone else > had already drafted. As I analysed that document, I found that word > emphasis were being done with <emphasis> tags, throughout the > document. > I found this odd because, some of the words represent classes > of data, > that should have a coherent formatting. I have some experience using > LaTeX, and one of the first things you learn is how to define > commands > for specific things (which is rather simple to achieve). Making the > transition from commands to tags, I was hoping there would > some equally > simpler way of defining tags that could be applied to custom > classes of > data. This way, instead of writing > <emphasis>search</emphasis>, I would > like to write something like <guibutton>search</guibutton>. > This way, if > at a later time it was found that gui buttons should be > written in bold, > changing it would be simple: which is not the case is you use > <emphasis> > all document long (and for other things that are "gui buttons" in my > example). Googling for a way to do this yielded a lot of things about > dtds and xsl, but nothing that answered my question. Is there > a way to > do this? Or I making some error regarding the way DocBook > should be used > (perhaps from my previous background working with LaTeX)? > > Please note that I have a somewhat limited knowledge of XML > and XSL, and > so I was really looking for a simple solution... > > Thanks in advance (and apologies for the long mail), > Oscar > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
