lists vs procedures WAS: Patch for Kubuntu Desktop Guide: Games Section

Venkat Raghavan venkatraghavan at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 07:08:48 UTC 2006


I'll take care to convert the existing documentation to follow this. Again, 
over the weekend. 

Thanks for the heads up,Jeff.

Venkat "robotgeek" Raghavan

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 00:57, Jeff Schering wrote:
> On 2/14/06, Brian Burger <blurdesign at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Actually, in the Ubuntu Desktop Guide, we/I replaced the qandasets
> > with sectX tags (sect1, sect2, etc), and mdke has been replacing our
> > orderedlists with itemizedlists (going from numbered lists to just
> > bullet points, in other words...)
>
> Procedures such as those found in the common tasks section of the
> desktop starter guide need to be numbered. Bulleted lists are not used
> in procedure steps, and only when the order of list items is not
> important.
>
> Both the orderedlist tag and the itemizedlist tags are not the correct
> tags for procedure steps. Instead, we should be using the procedure
> tag. See  http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/procedure.html and also,
> from the KDE Docbook Authors Guide:
> http://i18n.kde.org/doc/markup/lists.html
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
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> Jeff Schering
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