  Re: author's guide  Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:  > I realize
you've only just started, but so far, I don't really get any >
sense of the OSWG book being any different in scope from Norm's
book  Actually, it's quite different in that it is to be a task-
based approach to learning/using DocBook, rather than a
reference-guide for the DTD and its elements/entities.    > Such
a book needs to focus on cookbook examples, of using DocBook to
> solve a wide array of real-world problems. The structure of
the book > should be driven by those real-world examples rather
than on the > components and structure of DocBook itself.
That's pretty much what the Practical Guide aims at doing --
perhaps that doesn't come out in the outline in its current
draft.  > This is not a criticism,  That's really the approach I
intend to take -- rather than being an alphabetical list of
elements, it is organized according to the markup task the
author is trying to accomplish.  The "cookbook"-style sections
are the step-by-step examples.