Nested procedures, procedures inside of tables, etc. would be messy--not
sure how you'd number them. <substeps> allows you to nest procedures
without that problem. I think no procedures in paras is a good thing.
David
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From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw at nwalsh dot com]
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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: any reason why a "procedure" is not a child of
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/ "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com> was heard to say:
| i just noticed that the procedure element cannot be a child
| of a para, as can other lists. any reason for this? it seems
| like this would be useful if a procedure should be considered
| part of its enclosing paragraph. just curious.
I don't recall consciously deciding to exclude it. File an RFE, I guess.
Be seeing you,
norm
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