Re: chapters

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* John Fleck (jfleck@inkstain.net) wrote at 16:41 on 12/08/00:
> Ali -
> 
> I don't think your suggestion of handling <chapter> the same as
> <sect1> is a problem. I've put together another test kit that includes
> four documents that use chapters:

Well - you see, I don't want to go ahead and add a whole shit-load of code
only to find out that <chapter> behaves differently than <sect1>.

So what I would like to know is - why is <chapter> used? When you come to
write a doc, why would you pick <chapter> instead of <sect1>?

I have a feeling that <chapter's> are 'supposed' to be used in 'Books' right?

> - bristol.sgml is one of the aisleriot games - this is a doc that would
> actually ship
> - gnome-intro is out of date, won't ship, but uses chapters so it's a
> good test case (I had to clean it up a bit - this is not the way it
> exists in cvs but it parses as valid)
> - two versions of a gnome-applet-tempalte thingie that may very well
> ship at some point (one with entities and one without - directory
> labels should make this obvious).
> 
> I didn't put any pictures with these - they're somewhat of a mess.
> 
> http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/sgmlkit3.tar.gz
> 
> or linked from
> http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/gdp.html
> 
> 
> P.S. I now have a big archive of docs set up on my computer so that if
> there's a tag you have a question about, I can find docs we have that
> might use it for testing purposes.