Re: [docbook-apps] Alternatives to entities for referencing small substitutions

2016-10-19 Thread Dave Pawson
Excellent use of catalogs. Never ceases to amaze me just how useful they are. regards Dave P On 18 October 2016 at 22:44, Cathy Riely wrote: > You could also use catalogs that point to two different entity files based > on the target project passed in. > > On Oct 18, 2016, at

Re: [docbook-apps] Alternatives to entities for referencing small substitutions

2016-10-18 Thread Paul Hoadley
On 19 Oct 2016, at 8:14 AM, Cathy Riely wrote: > You could also use catalogs that point to two different entity files based on > the target project passed in. Thanks Cathy. I’ll take a look at that option as well. -- Paul Hoadley http://logicsquad.net/

Re: [docbook-apps] Alternatives to entities for referencing small substitutions

2016-10-18 Thread Cathy Riely
You could also use catalogs that point to two different entity files based on the target project passed in. > On Oct 18, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Paul Hoadley wrote: > > On 19 Oct 2016, at 2:44 AM, Thomas Schraitle wrote: > >> This sounds like profiling in

Re: [docbook-apps] Alternatives to entities for referencing small substitutions

2016-10-18 Thread Paul Hoadley
On 19 Oct 2016, at 2:44 AM, Thomas Schraitle wrote: > This sounds like profiling in combination with entities. > > You could define your foo entity like this: > > os='a'>Bar os='b'>Baz"> > > The element is quite neutral and is allowed where inline elements > are >

Re: [docbook-apps] Alternatives to entities for referencing small substitutions

2016-10-18 Thread Thomas Schraitle
Hi Paul, Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2016, 20:38:00 schrieb Paul Hoadley: > > What is the state of the art for small text substitutions (basically just > domain-specific terms) that can also be varied via the profiling machinery? > I have an application that can run as more than one “product”, and

Re: [docbook-apps] Alternatives to entities for referencing small substitutions

2016-10-18 Thread Paul Hoadley
Hi Dave, On 18 Oct 2016, at 10:11 PM, Dave Pawson wrote: > Paul, I now defer to Bob at > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ which is a most excellent resource. Bob’s book is excellent, for sure. I always found your FAQ super-helpful too! -- Paul Hoadley

Re: [docbook-apps] Alternatives to entities for referencing small substitutions

2016-10-18 Thread Dave Pawson
Paul, I now defer to Bob at http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ which is a most excellent resource. HTH On 18 October 2016 at 11:08, Paul Hoadley wrote: > Hello, > > I’ve been out of the DocBook ecosystem for a few years, but I’ve got some > documentation to write and I’m