Hi, I use quickbook to write software design documentation targeting pdf. We now introduce a requirements tracking system that includes both source code and design documents. To describe or refer to requirements in docbook docments special xml markup is needed. I.e. something like <reqfooo><status>approved</status><version>1</version><id>DoOnlyNeededStuff</id><description></description></regfoo>. Since I do not want to write XML I added quickbook templates: [template reqfoo[id contents]'''<reqcfoo><id>'''[id]'''</id>'''[contents]'''</reqfoo>'''] [template sdesc[contents]'''<shortdesc>'''[contents]'''</shortdesc>'''] [template verification[contents]'''<verifycrit>'''[contents]'''</verifycrit>'''] [template source[contents]'''<source>'''[contents]'''</source>'''] [template usecase[contents]'''<usecase>'''[contents]'''</usecase>'''] [template status[contents]'''<status>'''[contents]'''</status>'''] [template version[contents]'''<version>'''[contents]'''</version>'''] and finally: [template desc[contents]'''<description>'''[contents] '''</description>'''] Now I want to use block elements inside the contents parameter of desc. Is there any way to achieve that? The only thing I can think of is: [template desc[]'''<description>'''] [template enddesc[]'''</description>'''] But then quickbook is just as good as xml! I tried to make desc a block level template by adding a line break at different positions, but then I get broken xml code, since para tags are spread around <description> regards Andreas