Docbook and strikethrough functionality

Question

How to add to Docbook strikethrough functionality? I mean something like this this is striked example text. I mean HTML output generation.

Answer 1

Assuming that you are using DocBook-XSL, here is how you can add the strike-through effect to inline content:

1. Set the emphasis.propagates.style parameter to 1.

2. Set the html.stylesheet parameter to a suitable value, for example mystyle.css.

3. Add the following to mystyle.css:

   span.strike { text-decoration: line-through; }
   

4. Use <emphasis role="strike">some text</emphasis> to mark up text snippets in your XML source file that should be decorated.

5. Transform to HTML and behold the result.

More details can be found here: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/UsingCSS.html.