Re: Problems with the DSSSL style-sheets

[Poet/Joshua Drake <jd@linuxports.com>]

Hello,

What about:

<ULink URL="news:comp.os.linux.announce";>comp.os.linux.announce</Ulink>

?

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

>I've just finished converting all of my active HOWTOs to DocBook.
>While doing this, I have run across one problem with DocBook itself 
>and two problems with the stylesheets.
>
>1. Missing <newsgroup> tag.
>
>The problem with the DocBook markup itself is that I cannot find any
>way to semantically tag a USENET newsgroup name.  This comes up
>especially frequently in connection with LDP HOWTOs, which often 
>cite newsgroups.  
>
>We're missing a <newsgroup> element, which would be desirable for the
>same reason as <email>.  Consider
>
>     <newsgroup>comp.os.linux.announce</newsgroup>
>
>In HTML output, this wants to become
>
>     <a href="news:comp.os.linux.announce";>comp.os.linux.announce</a>
>
>But in print we probably want the equivalent of
>
>     <emphasis>comp.os.linux.announce</emphasis>
>
>without news URL.
>
>2.  Stylesheet problems in HTML output.
>
>Using the docbook-style-dsssl-1.54-4 package, I note that in HTML output
>
>A: Contents and title are badly ordered.  That is, the table of
>contents is set before the document title and front matter.
>
>B: No break between front matter and first body section.
>
>C: Contents of the author tag is rendered as a single run-on-line with 
>no line breaks or spacing.
>

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