Steven Cogorno wrote: > On Jan 13, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Rainer Heilke wrote: > >> Some tools are good at catching these things, some aren't. Some >> (PageMaker and the like) used to require manually setting these >> parameters and I suspect some still do. I've found that, no matter >> how good the tool, these little gremlins can slip past on occasion. >> Little blighters! ;-) Proof-reading is everything (admittedly, >> easier with shorter texts ;-). > > > The issue here is that the two list items are actually one "item" but > according to the markup, they are two individual list items. So, the > formatting tools have no way to know that a page break should be > prohibited between the Incorrect/Correct items. This can be fixed by > having the writer add a processing "hint" to the content, which I'm > sure Michelle will do for the next round.
I gather this "hint" capability is one thing that distinguishes DocBook processing from your standard DTP/WP tools. Like HTML (or any Markup Language), you are actually "programming" a document's formatting. In this case, I can see how you can have more confidence that the DocBook will do the "right thing". Maybe I've worked with computers too long; I'm still going to be paranoid about proofing a document manually. ;-) Rainer
