John Brown wrote:
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> I understand the concept fully. Instead of just having <bold> or
> something similar, we are forced to type <emphasis role="strong">.
Either you do not in fact understand the concept, or you're being
willfully facetious.
The standard DocBook stylesheets will bold any text between <command>
tags, but the tag doesn't *mean* "make this text bold". The tag says
that the text inside it is a computer command of some sort, and bold is
a common typographic convention for computer commands in books. If you
don't like that style, you can redefine it with a custom stylesheet.
If the only semantic meaning you are trying to get across is "this bit
of text is bold" then DocBook may not be for you.
> The mediaobject in question is an image file (PNG, 8.5in X 11in, 300
The difference between them might be clearer to you if you try it with a
20x20 pixel PNG file instead. When inlined, the PNG file will sit in
the same line of text, just as this X is in this line of text. With the
other tag, it gets broken out into its own "paragraph", as you'd use for
a separate illustration.
> mediaobjects are certainly displayed "inline".
You're misunderstanding the meaning of that term. It has a very
specific meaning in DocBook, which it shares with HTML/CSS: it means "in
the same line of text" where the tags appear. But, it's hard to see
that distinction when you're using graphics the size of an entire page.
