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Subject: DOCBOOK: Marking up protocols such as ftp..?
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:18:09PM -0400 or thereabouts, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Sean Donnellan <sean@donnellan.de> was heard to say: > | I was wondering, as I come from a UNIX/Network background, if there are > | any standard ways of representing hostnames, domainnames, and ip addresses > | in DocBook. > > This came up recently. From my (as yet unpublised minutes from the > last f2f meeting) [snip] Oh, goodie. Something I have been wondering is whether there is any way to mark up protocols such as FTP, HTTP, UDP and so on, and whether such a thing would be useful to others as well as to me. Is this the sort of thing I should be justified in requesting as an RFE? I haven't been using DocBook for very long (less than a year) so I'm a bit hesitant to request another tag to add to the fairly large list. At the same time, I can't find anything I can use to mark many of them up. The sort of thing I'm thinking of is where you are describing the protocol, not linking to something. In the documentation of a firewall tool aimed squarely at new users (gnome-lokkit) there are explanations of what various options will do and how they will affect the user. That was one place I became sorely confused. Some examples are: <para> DHCP is the Dynamic Hostname Configuration Protocol, which is a way of being assigned an internet address.... </para> <para> If email arrives on your ISP's server and you collect it over <acronym>IMAP</acronym> or <acronym>POP3</acronym>... </para> <para> FTP has two modes of operation, one of which is firewall-friendly. Modern FTP clients tend to support the friendly mode (really called passive mode)... </para> <para> Realaudio defaults to using UDP which is hard to firewall... (Eep. What a horrible sentence. Must fix that.) Etc. Etc. I looked at DHCP, IMAP, POP3, FTP, UDP and the rest and the best I could do was to find <acronym>. For some reason I didn't spot <abbrev> at the time. There are a host more examples of similar and related items I wanted to mark up ("There's tags for everything else, there must be for this", was roughly my feeling at the time) at: http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-doc-list/2000-March/000777.html Telsa
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