DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: CSS for command tag

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ ed nixon <ed.nixon@lynnparkplace.org> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
|> <snip/>
|> / "Fischer, Oliver" <plexus@snafu.de> was heard to say:
|> | Hello,
|> | today I recognized, that
|> | <command>Tool0815</command>
|> | is rendered with xsl stylesheets 1.58.1 in html as
|> | <b>Tool0815</b>.
|> |
|> | So it is very difficult so assign via CSS a specific formating. Its
|> | looks to different from my commandsynopsis and so on.
|> How apropos of the current thread.
|> | What to to? Hackig/Customizing the xsl stylesheets?
|> I've just fixed things so that the stylesheets generate
|>   <b class="command">Tool0815</b>
|
| Excellent example/use case!
|
| Why wouldn't <span class="command">Tool0815<span/> be more flexible
| markup here? If we think it's absolutely necessary to create a visual
| indicator, place a ".command{ font-weight: bold;} in the head style?

Yes, it's an excellent use case. It's a perfect example of what I
described in an earlier message: a case where it's desirable for
there to be some distinguishing presentation even when a non-CSS aware
browser is used.

Given that a CSS user can override b.command, I actually think the b
is fine here.

| Earlier you raise the issue of styles appearing in all files, even if
| not used. Is this a huge issue, presumably in terms of file size? How
| many of these imbedded styles are we talking about?

Probably not too many, but there's no practical way for the
stylesheets to only selectors the fragments necessary.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | Everything should be made as
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