RE: [docbook] How do I tell keycap+ from keycap keypad+

[Barton Wright <bwright@streambase.com>]

[Moving this to the more appropriate docbook-apps mailing list. The DocBook list is for discussion of the standard itself.]

 

There must be a dozen ways to do what you want. Here is one that works for HTML output generated with the DocBook XSL stylesheets, and using a CSS file. This does not work for PDF output, which lacks CSS styling.

 

1. When you mean any plus key, tag it as usual: <keycap>+</keycap>

2. When you mean the plus key on the numeric keypad, wrap the <keypad> in an <emphasis> element with the role attribute set to an arbitrary string (but not "keycap"). Here, I use "numpad":

      <emphasis role="numpad">

        <keycap>+</keycap>

      </emphasis>

3. Set the stylesheet parameter emphasis.propagates.style=1 as described in this page of the Stayton book.

4. In your CSS file, provide a style for span.numpad. For example:

   span.numpad {

      background-color: #bfbfbf;

   }

 

An example of the results is here: http://s299684157.onlinehome.us/

 

Perhaps someone else can suggest a more general solution that works for other output formats.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Krzysztof Żelechowski [mailto:giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl]
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 7:30 PM
To: Barton Wright
Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook] How do I tell keycap+ from keycap keypad+

 

Dnia piątek, 14 stycznia 2011 o 19:42:47 Barton Wright napisał(a):

> Hello Krzysztof,

>

> Your question is really a matter of style, which is up to you, or up to the company for which you are writing.

 

Not necessarily.  A technical question: How do I markup <keycap >+</keycap > so that it can be rendered on a gray background when keypad is required, but not when any '+' wins?

 

Chris