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RE: How to use appendixes
- From: Kevin Dunn <kdunn at hsc dot edu>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org,Stephan Wiesner <stephan at stephan-wiesner dot de>
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:56:28 -0500
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to use appendixes
- Reply-to: kdunn at hsc dot edu
>
>> In short, the <appendix/> tag should be used for things other
>> than indices, glossaries, bibliographies, etc. If you markup
>> a glossary inside an appendix, it its the glossary for the
>> appendix, not for the larger document.
>
>Well, if I open any nonfiction book from my board, I find exactly those
>things marked as appendix.
>
If you look in DTG, the glossary and index are listed after the appendices, but this is a stylesheet issue. You could customize your stylesheet to list them as appendices. From the markup side, however,
<book>
<chapter/>
<chapter/>
<appendix/>
<glossary/>
<index/>
</book>
has two chapters and an appendix. The glossary and index are for the whole book.
<book>
<chapter/>
<chapter/>
<appendix>
<glossary/>
<index/>
</appendix>
</book>
With this markup, the glossary and index are specific to the appendix, which has its own content. That is why you are finding that you need a <para></para> in your appendix. Otherwise the appendix has no content.
--
Kevin M. Dunn
Professor of Chemistry
Hampden-Sydney College
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