Re: [docbook] Re: How to mark up inline program listings?

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>]

Norman Walsh wrote:

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> / Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> was heard to say:
> | Michael Smith wrote:
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> |  > Myself, I would use Literal. If that doesn't meet your need, file an
> |  > RFE. But I'd suggest proposing Code and not Inlineprogram.
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> | Perhaps
> |    <programlisting type="inline">p 6</programlisting>
> | (as with simplelist) ...
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> No, programlisting is always a block.


I know that the DB element named programlisting always is a block, and I 
suggested to allow for a choice, for very short inline code snippets or 
extremely short programs, since some program listings are one the inline 
level.

eg
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-inline-text.html#edef_inline-text_code
"9.3. The code element

The code element contains a fragment of computer code.

[...]

Example:

The Pascal statement <code>i := 1;</code> assigns the
literal value one to the variable <var>i</var>."

Perhaps it would make sense to have element programlisting for blocks of 
code (parallel to XHTML 2 blockcode [bc]) and add element code for 
inline programs and inline code (program fragments) (parallel to XHTML 
code [c]).

That would be great AFAICS. Is that what you proposed in the other post?

> The fact that simplelist is sometimes
> a block and sometimes an inline is probably not a good feature :-)


Why not? I use this feature, and so far I think it's great.


Tobi

[bc]
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-block-text.html#sec_8.2.
[c]
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-inline-text.html#edef_inline-text_code

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