[publican-list] RFC: Supporting RevisionFlag attribute

[Jeff Fearn]

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 08:49 +1000, Ruediger Landmann wrote:
> On 05/18/2010 05:59 AM, Paul Morgan wrote:
> > Change bars are not _just_ for document authors and reviewers.
> >
> > Sample use-case:
> >
> > Company X must use change bars for all runbook procedures
> > to indicate changes between revisions, and these runbooks must
> > be printed.
> >
> > Disregarding the level of sanity (what if there are two revs
> > in quick succession?), the lack of change bars would cut
> > Publican from the list of documentation products without
> > further consideration.

Meh.

> Just noting here that if Publican adds the role=added/changed/deleted 
> attributes to the built HTML, then the choice between change bars and 
> coloured backgrounds is something that can be set in the CSS of 
> individual brands, so even if Publican's default behaviour is to use 
> backgrounds, Company X can still implement change bars when they create 
> their Publican brand.

People who print HTML need to be [CENSORED]. PDF is the print format and
people printing HTML will be pointed and laughed at and generally
ridiculed!

Cheers, Jeff.

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Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com>
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