On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 16:21 +0200, Jacques Foucry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to use abbreviation or kind of aliases in docbook.
>
> Let me explain : imagine you are writing the documentation of a
> software. The software name is long (Microsoft Excel 2005 for Palm
> Pilot) and it will appears many and many time in the text. Each time
> you type it you can make mistake. So the question is : is it possible
> to define somewhere ME2PP == Microsoft Excel 2005 for Palm Pilot and
> during processing ME2PP will be replaced Microsoft Excel 2005 for
> Palm Pilot, each time.
Yes. If using xml
<!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "path/to/dtd"[
<!ENTITY ME2PP " Microsoft Excel 2005 for Palm Pilot">
]>
later
<para>
Working with &ME2PP; we do ......
HTH
DaveP
