At 17:14 01/05/2004, Michael A Nachbaur wrote:
>Jason Kircher wrote:
>
>>Although Docbook looks like it's more geared toward writing technical manuals
>I've been thinking the same thing myself.
>However, I believe adopting additional tags for different genres of
>writing can only lead to madness and perdition. For instance, "spell",
>"magicitem", none of those tags have any place in my form of writing.
>Instead, terms like "scienceterm", "technology" and "stellarbody" would be
>more appropriate. I'm not recommending that these tags be adopted
>however, since the vast number of writing styles would overwhelm.
Long time ago I remember commenting on Chapter 5 of 'Docbook, the definitive
guide', a book about Docbook. Chapter 5 is all about adding spells and
magic items and scienceterm and stellarbody tags into docbook.
It will take a bit of thinking, and you may not get it right first time,
but I guess you'll get lots more out of it when you are done?
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch05.html
HTH DaveP
