Re: chapters

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Karl Eichwalder (keichwa@gmx.net) wrote at 00:19 on 12/08/00:
> Ali Abdin <aliabdin@aucegypt.edu> writes:
> 
> > 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>.
> 
> I don't know what you want to hear ;)  A chapter is a chapter is a
> chapter and a section is a section is a section.
> 
>     <chapter> != <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>?
> 
> Ask the DTD writers...  If you're wrinting a `book' using the DocBook
> DTD you have to ;)
> 
> > I have a feeling that <chapter's> are 'supposed' to be used in 'Books' right?
> 
> If you're using the DOCTYPE `book' the `chapter' sectioning level is
> mandatory (I'm posting my last example again):
> 
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//GNOME//DTD DocBook Customization V2.0//EN">
> <book>
>  <bookinfo>
> 
>  </bookinfo>
> 
>  <chapter>
>   <title></title>
>   <para></para>
> 
>   <sect1 id="k1">
>    <title></title>
>    <para>This section is okay.</para>
>   </sect1>
> 
>   <sect1>
>    <title></title>
>    <para>Here the ID is missing ;-)</para>
>   </sect1>
> 
>  </chapter>
> 
> </book>

Ahh - right :) I knew that :) The cool thing is we can handle a Book with one
big chapter very well ;) The problem arises when you have multiple chapters :(

I'll look into it sometime - but probably not anytime soon :)