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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: how to annotate/callout a list of files


On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:19:45PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i want to list all of the files involved in the linux login process:
> 
>   /etc/passwd
>   /etc/shadow 
>   /etc/group
>   /etc/profile
> 
>   ... etc etc ...
> 
> and would like to assign something like callouts to each file so i can 
> expand on each one underneath the list.  but, as i read it, "co"s can't
> be attached to list elements.  so it seems i have two choices:
> 
> 1) do the list as, possibly, a literallayout (which is possible)
> 
> 2) use an actual list, and maybe attach footnotes (yuck ... that doesn't
>    seem like the effect i'm going for.
> 
> is there an obvious way to get this effect?

Here is a list of elements that can contain <co>:

computeroutput
literallayout
programlisting
prompt
replaceable
screen
synopsis
systemitem
userinput

If literallayout is not satisfactory, you might
try a list where each filename is wrapped in <systemitem>.

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