Question about bug 8206

Mark Flacy <mflacy1comcast.net> writes:

> Try this one:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/
x50.html

That's really a silly misleading reading.

That page can led to the false belief that TeX and Texinfo
can't
express structure instead of presentation.

Regards,
Andrea.

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On 2006.10.05 13:27, Andrea Russo wrote:
> Mark Flacy <mflacy1comcast.net> writes:
> 
> > Try this one:
> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/
x50.html
> 
> That's really a silly misleading reading.
> 
> That page can led to the false belief that TeX and
Texinfo can't
> express structure instead of presentation.


_Slightly_ further on in the same document (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO
/x181.html), we see...

"The Free Software Foundation has made a policy
decision to support DocBook as an interchange format.
Texinfo has enough structure to make reasonably good
automatic conversion possible, and the 4.x versions of
makeinfo feature a --docbook switch that generates
DocBook."

Note that "reasonably good" doesn't mean perfect,
which (once again) implies that presentation-driven markup
won't always map one-to-one to logical markup.


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> Note that "reasonably good" doesn't mean
perfect, which (once again)
> implies that presentation-driven markup won't always
map one-to-one to
> logical markup.

Could you give some concrete example for why Texinfo is
"presentation
oriented"?  I always think of it as logical markup.


        Stefan


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