RE: editing markup

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jorge Godoy [mailto:godoy@conectiva.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 4:52 AM
> To: cg@cdegroot.com
> Cc: Gregory Leblanc; Ldp Docbook List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: editing markup
> 
> >>>>> "Cees" == Cees de Groot <cg@cdegroot.com> writes:
> 
>     Cees> If the idea is that the author knows what you edited, it's
>     Cees> probably most useful to use conditional sections.
> 
>     Cees> <!DOCTYPE .... [ ENTITY % Gregs.edits "INCLUDE" ENTITY %
>     Cees> Gregs.comments "IGNORE"]> ...
> 
>     Cees> <![ %Gregs.comments; [ <para> This piece above totally sux
>     Cees> </para> ]]>
> 
>     Cees> ...
> 
>     Cees> <![ %Gregs.edits; [ <para> Some new text the author
>     Cees> forgot......</para> ]]>
> 
>     Cees> You get the idea. Disclaimer: check the exact syntax ;-) --
> 
> What's wrong with DocBook markup for revision? I've been using it for
> a while now... They provide in-document (inside it) view of what each
> person has done. 

The tag is called <comment> in DocBook3, and <remark> in DocBook 4.  Seems
to be a cleaner solution than the above for doing comments.  The edits are
handled by CVS.

> CVS does the rest of the job for us...

And it does a bloody good job!  :-)  Thanks,
	Greg


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