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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Best tool for DocBook
Dave Pawson wrote: > At 14:54 22/08/2001 -0500, Dennis Grace wrote: > I.e. take a block of stuff and gradually make it > conformant to a DTD. Yeah, I do that a lot, too. I'm surprised you haven't been using macros to speed up the task. For example, if you have a chunk of regularly formatted text to be turned into a list, you can set up the empty list with the correct markup and put all the text below it, one item per line. Then you record a macro where you copy the empty listitem, paste it below, go to the first line of the text, copy it, and paste it into the first listitem markup, go back to your starting point and delete the extra line. Then run the macro for all list items. This is a simple example. You can do whole sets of reference pages or whatever by following the same principle. It may seem like extra work for 3 or 4 items, but if you have a couple dozen, or if you do the same kind of markup many times, it saves a huge amount of time. Since each situation is a little different, and they're so easy to make, I usually don't bother saving macros. My criteria for when to do a macro, is any time you are going to have to do the same thing 6 times or more. Once you get used to doing them, it becomes second nature. Give it shot. :-) -- Cheerio! Bob --------------------------------------- Robert McIlvride (robert@cogent.ca) Cogent Real-Time Systems (www.cogent.ca)
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