From: Doug du Boulay <ddb@R3401.rlem.titech.ac.jp>
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: docbook vs latex
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 18:58:50 +0900
Sorry. I dont think I do see that point. It seems to me that
mathematics is more fundamental and common to all of
historianism(?), medicine, economics and in fact all of
science including software documentation than, say the object
oriented elements of DocBook. So I dont think you can
legitimately compare adding new elements for expressing
mathematics and the foundations of the computational sciences
with adding new elements for documenting ingrown toenails for
instance.
Yeah, but where do you draw the line? Adding math-oriented markup could
easily balloon into hundreds of new elements, or more. Even if you could
find a couple dozen elements that seem eminently reasonable to add, there
are continual complaints about the current size of the docbook vocabulary.
In other words, your complaint is valid, but your prescribed solution not
only doesn't scale, but exacerbates a serious (according to some) existing
problem.