Michael(tm) Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The only way for doclifter to generate proper markup for .RS/.RE
> instances like that would be be for it to figure out what semantic
> meaning the author intended for that indented block to have. Is it
> a program listing, an example, or what? It sound like you already
> have doclifter doing some AI stuff to make that determination in
> some cases.
That's right. There are several cases.
1. When .RS/.RE is detected within list structure generated by .TP or .IP,
it generates no tags in the result at all, but does start a new level
of nested list structure.
2. When .RS/.RE is detected in association with .nf/.fi and/or .ft CW,
some display processing is invoked that looks at the content and
decides whether to translate the result as <screen>, <programlisting>,
<synopsis>, or <literallayout>.
3. Only when .RS/.RE is found surrounding running test and not within
a list does it generate <blockquote remap='RS'>.
> But I'm sure there are many cases where it can't
> figure out what the author's intention was.
Actually, those cases are not at all common. Most instances fall under
cases 1 and 2.
> I don't think generating <blockquote> for those cases is the right
> thing to do. I guess the only thing I can suggest is that you
> generate a, say, remap="RS-RE" attribute/value on whatever block
> element you output (<para> or whatever) for the block that the
> RS/RE instance contains.
Been there. Tried that. Won't work.
One major problem with that approach is that .RS/.RE sometimes occurs
as a wrapper around several paragraphs, not just one.
> And maybe emit a warning: "RS/RE found
> but can't determine intened semantics" (or whatever).
I used to have such a warning. I reinstate it for case 3.
The good news is that this is certainly the worst and probably the only
DocBook tag abuse that doclifter commits.
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