Re: Tabs and <formalgroup> content model

Mats Wichmann <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Feb 2024 11:33:13 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.text.docbook.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/5/24 06:31, Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote:
> Thomas Schraitle <[email protected]> writes:
>> Not sure if this is the "right" way to do that in DocBook, but I face =
some
>> questions:
>>
>> 1. What if I don't need the formalgroup title?
>>     I could use <title/>, but that's not the same. Perhaps this goes i=
nto
>>     the direction of a <informalformalgroup> (which doesn't exist).
>=20
> I=E2=80=99m not sure formalgroup is really a good fit here. It feels mo=
re like
> what=E2=80=99s needed for this sort of thing is an =E2=80=9Calternative=
s=E2=80=9D element and a
> wrapper for a series of alternatives.
>=20
> In addition to the title problem, I wouldn=E2=80=99t be surprised if yo=
u
> discovered you wanted to have different kinds of things in different
> tabs. You might even be eluding to that in your introduction of
> formalpara to the mix. Note that formalgroup is a group of one type.


Just as an information point, "other" systems do have provision for=20
alternatives-in-tabs model, but it's not necessarily intrinsic, as an=20
illustration see here (this is an add-on):

https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-tabs/