On 22-Oct-98 Allan Rae wrote:
> Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote:
>> <!element linuxdoc o o
>> (sect | chapt | article | report |
>> book | letter | telefax | slides | notes | manpage ) >
>>
>> That is (if I'm not wrong) the top element of a linuxdoc document can be
>> any of these elements. Currently LyX only supports article as the top
>> element, that is very easy to implement with the textclass approach , ok?
>
> I always thought of linuxdoc and DocBook as equivalent to LaTeX article
> or similar but now you have shown that its article|book|man etc. it is
> all beginning to become clear...
In docbook there is a tag that is the same as a set of books, so that all
the documents with the top element being a book could be part of yet another
bigger set. So as you see this is far away from article :)
>> So as you see SGML (XML) instances are more than a common format.
>> Do you see the difference?
>
> I do now.
>> > Perhaps I'm just confused...
>> And now even more :)
>
> On the contrary I'm much better informed about linuxdoc and DocBook
> which are much more complex than I thought.
The only thing that I'm doing with layouts is adapting them to our needs.
I'm glad to hear that you are understood my explanation, one of the
problems that I founded during all this time looking for sgml is that the
documentation is very sparse, and sometimes not for beginners, althoug that
is fortunately changing.
> Allan. (ARRae)
BTW: regarding all this thread I search through Altavista for latex.dtd, that
is, an SGML dtd where latex or possibly a subset was defined as an sgml
instance.
Altavista found 3 entries (!) and then suggested me to search in
Alternative Allergies... :) Any comment? ;)
--
Jos� Ab�lio de Oliveira Matos
Date: 22-Oct-98 : Time: 15:36:38 GMT
I'm GLAD I remembered to XEROX all my UNDERSHIRTS!!
