structured paragraphs, paragraphs with indented sub paragraphs

Many times in my technical writing, I want a subordinate
thought 
expressed as a sub-paragraph.

I've tried using <longquote> - that's OK but it also
indents the right 
margin - I only want the left margin indented.

I've tried using <itemizedlist> - that works if I use
an undocumented 
"mark" attribute to turn off the bullet. 
  (Looking at docbook 1.72.0 I found you can set the
"mark" attribute to 
"none")

The best would be to allow <para> to have nested
<para> elements, with 
the semantics of the nested ones would be indented
relative to their (immediately) containing <para>
nodes.  This has less 
"tag" overhead (meaning, the number
of elements / attributes needed to specify) than the other
two 
approaches above.  Has this been considered?

-Marshall

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Marshall Schor wrote:
> 
> I've tried using <longquote> - that's OK but it
also indents the right 
> margin - I only want the left margin indented.

DocBook doesn't dictate formatting.  The DocBook project
happens to 
distribute some XSL files that can be used to get a
formatted output, 
but there's no reason you're forced to use them, or take
them as-is.  If 
you want a different look, customize the standard style
sheets, or make 
your own.

At this point, maybe you want to ask how you would do that 
customization.  But I wouldn't presume to ask questions on
your behalf.

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