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Re: On the size of DocBook...
- From: jonathon <jblake at eskimo dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:18:56 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: On the size of DocBook...
On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Michael Smith wrote:
]>That said, I can't imagine any document author or document-authoring
]>group that would need "full" DocBook DTD as their *authoring DTD*. I
I can. I wouldn't recomend it as a matter of course.
If somebody is working on technical documents that cover a couple
of different fields, Most, if not all of the _current_ DocBook
elements could be used.
]>of documents, I was thinking it might be worthwhile (to the extent
]>that it's possible) for the TC to produce some subsets designed to
]>meet the needs of some specific, identifiable, communities -- a
Taking a page out of Word97, a tool could include the complete
DocBook spec, and approved/custom/whatever additions that are
consistent with DocBook.
The user selects the appropriate subset, by making selections from
something similar to the Style Guide in Word97.
]>But I'm not sure how practical it would be to try to do that, because
]>in trying to think of identifiable groups with common authoring needs,
Letters
Journal Articles [ Use appropriate subset for the field.]
]>it's hard to come up with any group within which authoring needs
]>range purposes by groups with some varied needs. So it might be very
]>difficult to produce a "help authoring" DocBook subset that didn't
If the authoring tool has non-exclusive radio button.
help authoring toolbox
rarely used elements
statistical elements
programing elements
lingistic elements
drama elements
mathematical elements
rarely used math elements
etc.
[ Terms used are simply as examples. I doubt that all/any actually exist. ]
]> * for most part, the difficulties that people run into in trying to
]> customize DocBook are simply DTD-customization difficulties, not
]> necessarily DocBook-customization difficulties. What I mean is, I
]> think they are difficulties that they'd run into in trying to
]> customize any large DTD, not difficulties unique to DocBook
Perhaps a couple of tutorials showing how to customize for different
fields/things would be of use here.
Trivial example: Writing a play.
Non-trivial Example: High Speed particle Physics.
]> * if we went with a complete refactoring, I'd want to be sure it
]> just didn't introduce a different set of customization challenges
Any change is going to induce a new set of customization challanges.
xan
jonathon
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