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Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

166.0. "PROFILE and Headings" by DLO06::DAVIS (Jerry Davis @DLO 451-2929) Fri Mar 27 1987 16:30

    I would like to start using PROfile but...

    Most of what we do is Functional Specs, and Design Specs, using
    the General Doctype with NO chapters just headings.
    
    If I read the documentation right, I can't have a file that isn't
    one of those mentioned (ie. front_matter, chapter, part, appendix,
    or glossary).
    
    1)  BTW is backmatter with <index_file> NOT an element?

    2)  Why couldn't you include a <HEAD1> tag in the above list as
        opposed to <chapter>?

    
    Regards.
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166.1Agree, function needed but what's the best way?COOKIE::JOHNSTONFri Mar 27 1987 19:4612
I'd rather not see <HEADx> treated as an element; I think it could get
confusing as to when it required <ELEMENT> or <INCLUDES_FILE>.  But
.0 points out why we sometimes need unnumbered chapters.

Or how about allowing <TITLE> to have a symbolic name, to be used outside 
<TITLE_PAGE>/<ENDTITLE_PAGE>, and to be a PROfile element?

Other ideas?



Rose
166.2more to think aboutCLOSET::ANKLAMTue Mar 31 1987 19:1511
    
    will have to put books with non-elements and <title>s as elements
    on the list of things to look at later.
    
    it is possible to use <part>s as elements in a functional spec.
    (note that the use of <part> doesn't require a <part_page> tag)
    However, the heading level numbering won't be preserved during
    'element' builds. I'll think on this later, too.
    
    patti