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Re: Technical DTDs vs. non-technical
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Technical DTDs vs. non-technical
- From: Terry Allen <tallen at sonic dot net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:36:45 -0700
- Reply-To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
>DocBook was "primarily written for books about computer software and
hardware". "Because its main structures correspond to the general notion of
what constitutes a "book,", it is assumed that it automatically addresses
the needs of Literature in general.
Not really; it was a design goal (of mine) to make Docbook suitable
also for scholarly publishing. So if you toss out all the computer-
related inlines and structures, and ignore some things like QandASet
that you probably don't need, you ought to have a DTD that you can
use to format a scholarly book. If you find deficiencies we'd
like to hear of them.
Several folks pointed you to TEI, and remarked that it's mostly
oriented to analysis - and if that's what you want, then you should
use TEI. For example, if you want to mark up <couplet> you need
TEI; if you only want to typeset a poem, <literallayout> will do.
TEI also covers genres Docbook doesn't, such as plays and (I think)
dictionary entries.
regards, Terry