I have just one question, (from something I learned when programming robots:  
It is much easier to remember where you left something than to go looking for 
it again):  Should we use the "right" markup in hopes there will someday be an 
index, rather than having to go look for indexable terms when that day arrives?

On 2010-08-05, at 10:18, Lou Iorio wrote:

> I'm afraid the markup is wildly different throughout the doc. When I add
> anything
> new, I just use the <literal> tag: I've stopped using the <sgmltag> as well.
> 
> Tags like <indexterm> and <sgmltag> were part of the original design, but
> never implemented.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:41 AM, André Bargull <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hmm, I've just copied and pasted the docbook markup from other places in
>> the same chapter, that's why there are the additional <indexterm> tags.
>> 
>> I've made the following changes per your review comments and committed the
>> change:
>> - removed all <indexterm>, but left <sgmltag> in the initial paragraph
>> (that way the attributes are rendered in the same font just like in the rest
>> of the chapter)
>> - applied your proposal and simplified the list items, so the attribute
>> name is not repeated twice
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/5/2010 2:26 PM, Lou Iorio wrote:
>> 
>>> approved, but I'm not sure why you're using docbook "indexterm" tags:
>>> 
>>> since we don't have an index, and probably never will. I just use
>>> "literal" tags
>>> for this kind of thing. It's really only a display issue: indexterms
>>> appear in the
>>> HTML as red text.
>>> 
>>> I would simplify this:
>>> 
>>> <literal>textalign</literal>:
>>> <indexterm><primary>textalign</primary></indexterm><sgmltag
>>> class="attribute">textalign</sgmltag> specifies
>>>          how to align the text...
>>> 
>>> to this:
>>> 
>>> <literal>textalign</literal>: specifies
>>>          how to align the text...
>>> 
>>> Of course, you may know something I don't.
>>> 
>>> Lou
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:13 PM, André Bargull <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     Change 20100805-bargull-XZZ by barg...@bargull02 on 2010-08-05
>>>   01:43:22
>>>   in /home/anba/src/svn/openlaszlo/trunk
>>>   for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/trunk
>>> 
>>>   Summary: add "letterspacing", "textalign", "textdecoration" and
>>>   "textindent" to the text chapter of the Developer's Guide
>>> 
>>>   Bugs Fixed: LPP-8123 (lz.text - reference: improve description of
>>>   "letterspacing", "textalign", "textdecoration" and "textindent")
>>> 
>>>   Doc Reviewer: lou
>>> 
>>>   Documentation:
>>>   Added documentation for "letterspacing", "textalign",
>>>   "textdecoration" and "textindent" with a simple example to show all
>>>   attributes in action.
>>>   And some other clean-up for the text chapter, see details section
>>> below.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   Details:
>>>   - simple inline programlistings are no longer spanned over multiple
>>>   lines
>>>   - setXScroll() and setYScroll are deprecated, changed references to
>>>   use xscroll resp. yscroll attribute
>>>   - changed "scrollHeight" to proper lower case spelling "scrollheight"
>>>   - removed a couple of notes about resize behaviour of text, they
>>>   were totally out-dated
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   Tests:
>>>   build dguide, visual verify
>>> 
>>>   Files:
>>>   M docs/src/developers/text.dbk
>>>   A docs/src/developers/programs/text.advanced-styles.lzx
>>> 
>>>   Changeset:
>>>   http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20100805-bargull-XZZ.tar
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 


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