Re: Followup to Norm's write up on numbering.

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ nico <nicolas.marsgui@libertysurf.fr> was heard to say:
| The benefits would be that:
|
| - a document would not need to put <?dbhtml?>, <?dbfo?>, for each processor,
| improving its portability for other processors,

Yeah, dbfo and dbhtml were a mistake. Or at least, we need a dbxsl or
something as well. For the V2 stylesheets, perhaps. I haven't given
that any thought yet.

| BTW, there are other listing line numbering attributes that I would suggest to
| add:
|
| @linenumstart, @linenumstop: usefull when handling an external file, it would
| tell what portion of the file should be displayed by the document.  These are
| not rendering attributes, are they?

What you want is a fragment identifier syntax for text/plain that
would allow you to include only certain lines. :-)

| But again it's another subject, and I guess I should file another RFE :-)

Yeah. And I really don't want to invent that one :-)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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