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Presentational markup in Docbook
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- Subject: DOCBOOK: Presentational markup in Docbook
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:39:35 -0400
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In strict XHTML 1.1 I can use style attributes containing CSS rules to note that a particular element should be bold, italic, red, or some such. If necessary, I can add a span element to give me something to hang the CSS off of.
Is there any equivalent in Docbook? That is, is there any way to say that I want these three words to be red? or that element to be bold? Or that this note should be in a sans serif font? Mostly I'm happy with Docbook's semantic markup, but occasionally it seems that something is missing.
XHTML lets me apply unique styles without messing up the semantic nature of my document. Does Docbook?
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