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Re: itemized list within <para> or after </para>??
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- Cc: docbook mailing list <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:51:30 -0700
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: itemized list within <para> or after </para>??
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/ "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> was heard to say:
| is it proper to make the itemized list a sub-element of the
| paragraph, or to close the <para> and have the itemized list
| as the next element at the same level?
Yes. (i.e. both are proper.)
| aesthetically, it doesn't appear to make any difference, but
| TDG under "Para" suggests that "Some processing systems may find
| the presence of block elements in a paragraph difficult to
| handle". (p. 351)
In particular, transformation to HTML will produce invalid HTML with
some tools. (Because HTML doesn't allow blocks in paragraphs).
| so, any strong opinions either way?
I'm sure there are. :-) But at the end of the day, it's a matter of
style.
Be seeing you,
norm
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