Re: [docbook] Tabs and <formalgroup> content model

[Richard Hamilton <hamilton@xmlpress.net>]

The sphinx-tabs example looks a lot like nested variable lists to me. You have a tab (term) and text (listitem) and you can nest them.

Rather than creating new markup, would it make sense to treat tabs as an alternative display option?

Currently, the xsl stylesheets support two different display options for variablelist: block and table. Maybe tabs should be a third option.

Dick Hamilton
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> On Feb 5, 2024, at 11:42, Norm Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> 
> Mats Wichmann <mats@wichmann.us> writes:
>> Just as an information point, "other" systems do have provision for
>> alternatives-in-tabs model, but it's not necessarily intrinsic, as an
>> illustration see here (this is an add-on):
>> 
>> https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-tabs/
> 
> Thatâs interesting. Itâs more reminiscent of nested lists.
> 
> If you were going to do this with tag abuse, abusing an itemized list
> would seem among the least-worst options. For better or worse, listitem
> doesnât allow a title, though, so youâd still need the listitems to be
> wrappers around something, I guess.
> 
> I wonder, he asks with trepidation, if listitems should be allowed to
> have titles?
> 
> For the record, working out some proper markup for this seems entirely
> within the scope of DocBook.
> 
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