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Re: Transforming SGML
Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:04:43PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> >
> > You must modify DTD to allow inlineequations without graphic element.
> > This is probably not good idea for your particular case. You probably
> > want to save typing when including math formulas in a DocBook source --
> > for this case you can create some macro for your editor. This macro can
> > insert graphic element with some autogenerated number for you.
>
> Unfortunately it's not that easy. The document is managed in a revision
> control system and has many different authors. They are not interested
> in the filenames, and in fact the filenames are only of interest when
> the HTML is produced, and for no other formats. It makes sense to
> generate the filenames at output generation time, not at authoring time.
If you think it is appropriate, you can customize DocBook and remove
required graphic element from equation and customize stylesheets to do
right thing for you. You should carefully consider interchange problems
between standard DocBook and your customization which can arise later.
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