Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 10:15:56 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using stylesheets with SGML (was Re: cvs commit: doc/sgml freebsd.dsl) Message-ID: <19980706101556.09566@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980702203622.303N-100000@localhost>; from Chuck Robey on Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 08:41:25PM -0400 References: <19980702095135.22477@iii.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980702203622.303N-100000@localhost>
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On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 08:41:25PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> I realize that I could change the stylesheet, but the goal was to be
> able to do it from the single document source sgml file, and not to have
> to include a modified stylesheet each time (so that it is like my
> present groff documents). I wanted to be able to include some kind of
> sgml markup in the base doc, that would send a parameter to the
> stylesheet.
>
> I'm not sure it's possible to go in that direction with the information,
> but it would make things extremely more workable. This would be
> something I would want to change on a doc by doc basis, and not just
> being able to have one personally-modified local stylesheet. I'm trying
> to get the functionality I presently have in groff (or that you get via
> LaTeX).
It's not really possible, since the SGML approach is to keep the content
and the formatting apart.
One approach is to abuse an attribute of an element. For example, a
back end processor might convert
<emphasis>something</>
into italic, and
<emphasis role="bf">something</>
into a bold face. But this doesn't really scale, and (of course) it's up to
the back end processor (or DSSSL stylesheet) to know that the 'bf' value of
a 'role' attribute means that it should be rendered in a bold face.
I welcome corrections from anyone else reading this, but that's my take on
the issue.
N
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