Ok, after consulting the DocBook element reference
(http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/part2.html), I can see your point...
Granted, the list is enormous, but what I meant with my question was how
to proceed when in a situation for which no suitable (pre-defined)
elements exist...
From what I can make of the answers, DocBook appears (in this matter at
least) to follow a philosophy of "quantity over quality"... not really
what I was expecting, but it'll have to do.
(BTW, quality in this case means trying to provide all elements anyone
is ever likely going to need, instead of providing a way for new
elements to be added should the need arise. I want to make this clear to
avoid starting a possible flame :-) )
Kerry, Richard wrote:
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
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