Re: [Groff] Lack of quality print output from DocBook

[Michael(tm) Smith]

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>, 2007-01-03 12:48 -0500:

> Michael(tm) Smith <address@hidden>:
> > DocBook itself does not provide any means for marking up pages
> > breaks.
> 
> There is a <beginpage> tag.  I don't know wha the stylesheets 
> do with it.

I'm starting to wonder if you read the docs :) The purpose of the
<beginpage> element is documented here:

  http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/beginpage.html

"The break identified by BeginPage may be displayed in an online
version of the document or used for legacy purposes, but it is not
expected to cause a page break when the document is processed by
an SGML system."

I guess that's maybe not the best-worded explanation, but the what
it means to say is that BeginPage is not intended for forcing a
page break in output from a document. It's for marking up where a
page break occurred in whatever original document (if any) was
converted to the DocBook source it appears in. It probably would
have been better named LegacyPageBreak or something.

  --Mike

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