Followup to Norm's write up on numbering.

On Jul 19, Jirka Kosek (jirkakosek.cz) wrote:
 > I would really appreciate if DocBook can contain as
less presentational 
 > markup as possible. DocBook was designed as an
interchange format which 
 > captures semantics. linenumberstep attribute
doesn't improve semantic, 
 > nor possibilities of interchange.

I agree with Jirka about preserving the semantic nature of
DocBook.  If the
specific values for line numbering need to be set, that
should be done in a
stylesheet.  If you are really trying to express something
like, "this list
replaces a particular section of another list in the
document and should be
numbered appropriately", as we saw in one example,
then an extension to
DocBook that handles this should allow specifying that a
list is a replacement
of part of another, and the stylesheet should figure out the
numbering from
that.

Just my two cents as a DocBook user and occasional
customizer.

-- 
Neil Roeth

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Neil Roeth wrote:

> If you are really trying to express something like,
"this list
> replaces a particular section of another list in the
document and should be
> numbered appropriately", as we saw in one
example, then an extension to
> DocBook that handles this should allow specifying that
a list is a replacement
> of part of another, and the stylesheet should figure
out the numbering from
> that.

Although that I agree with you on this aspect generally, I
can live with 
  startingnumber on lists and procedures. Using 
continuation="continues" is not always
sufficient or practical. And 
although adding reference to the list which should continue
would be the 
clean way of implementing this feature, it would be probably
"too much" 
for ordinary users.

				Jirka

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