[docbook] Re: How to use classsynopsis and friends

2015-10-07 Thread Norman Walsh
maxwell writes: > It's too late now, I'm sure, but as a user of DocBook for purposes > other than software documentation (we use it for grammars), DocBook > seems bloated with all these tags for software (the aforementioned > being a perfect example). Yes. Well. Fair

[docbook] Re: How to use classsynopsis and friends

2015-10-07 Thread Norman Walsh
Stefan Seefeld writes: > Yes, at this point it's not possible to remove all the original synopsis > elements, so we'll have to live with them. But if users switch to the > API extension (if it turns out to be useful to anyone outside a small > community, that is), these

[docbook] Re: How to use classsynopsis and friends

2015-10-06 Thread Norman Walsh
Aristedes Maniatis writes: > I guess I'm just not understanding a fundamental concept in docbook > then. I had always assumed docbook was a pure documentation schema and > not intended to model real world concepts. When I look at Well. Every now and then, we've been persuaded to