How about "This is only for the unusual case where you want to maintain
the TOC by hand, AND need the elements pre-numbered for some reason."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerrit Kuilder" <>
To: "Norman Walsh" <>
Cc: "Peter Eisentraut" <>; "Bob Stayton" <>; "docbook" <>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 12:55 AM
Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Simplfying the ToC content model
> HEllo All,
>
> Norman Walsh wrote:
>
> > / Peter Eisentraut <> was heard to say:
> > | That puts the burden on the user to verify manually that the nesting is
> > | correct. Wasn't that what DTD's were supposed to provide? ISTM that
> >
> > This is only for the unusual case where you want to maintain the TOC
> > by hand.
> >
> > Be seeing you,
> > norm
>
>
> Peter makea a good point, and I am not quite sure how unusual it is to
> maintain or recreate the toc 'by hand' (or script/xsl). With the nested
> toc and with the proper class there is always this nagging feeling that
> the toc could be incorrect.
>
>
> And how unuasual is the 'manual' maintance of the toc? There must be
> quite few companies/people using the docbook outside the docbook/dssl/fo
> setup who need to generate the toc one way or another.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gerrit
>
>
>
