On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:49:50AM -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > > On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 08:29 AM, scarso luigi wrote: > > >Hence, the only way to specify formatting informations > >must be in a xml docbook document, not manipulating intermediate > >stylesheets that will corrupt the portability of a document. > > Maybe I misunderstand, but I don't agree. You code for structure in > DocBook, but you need the formatting handled externally: in a CSS file > for HTML, and a ConTeXt environment/module (I'm not clear on the > difference) for PDF via ConTeXt. If not, you lose flexibility.
I agree with this point of view: formatting preferences are expressed by customizing style sheets. I will do my best to enable context's customizations in the docbook module. But it remains a virtual exercise: you customize a TeX file that is never written out. For experienced context users that may be easy. For others that is not a trivial task: They must visualize a file in a language that they do not know well. (In FO it is a bit the same; you do not usually see the FO file, although you can.) Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
