Re: Simple documents and DocBook output

[Noah Slater]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 04:29:38PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     I am referring to variables in init file.
>
> It seems to me that the choice of root type is something that is
> known/determined by the author of the document.  This would argue for
> putting a command into the Texinfo source to specify it.

I think that the DocBook root should be external to the document in much the
same way that choosing HTML or XTHML might be external.

> Or does it make sense to process a given document with (say) root=book
> at one time or site and root=article at another?  Noah?

Yes, this would be a useful feature.

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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater