Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

197.0. "<TITLE> typo in <PART_PAGE>?" by MARVIN::KNOWLES (Running old protocol) Tue Sep 19 1989 06:16

    I think there's a typo on page 2-6 of Coding Documentation Source 
    Files for the DECwindows Bookreader. If <REFERENCE>(title_symbol\text)
    is a symbol, it needs a backslash before it - like the example on page
    9-186 of the Document user manual (vol. 1):
    
    	<TITLE>(<reference>(ref_part)\<reference>(ref_part\text))
    
    I say `I think', because I'm not really sure what's happening in the
    argument to this (p. 2-6) <TITLE> tag. Both `\value' and `\text'
    are specified in the <reference>s, but what is the `value' of a
    symbol that stands for a part title, if it's not the `text'?
    
    I'm not sure, but if the example works I'll use it. I haven't actually
    tried it, the apparent typo just confused me when I was reading Coding
    Documentation Source Files for the first time.
         
    Bob

In that example, the title consists of the part number followed by the title 
of the part.  The <TITLE> tag doesn't require a symbol as opposed to <CHAPTER>
and <HEADn> tags.  Does this help?

Wayne

    Thanks. I didn't realize that the <title> tag in that context didn't
    require a symbol.
    
    Bob