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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: tagging package names (rpm, deb)
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:54:45PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > / David Johnson <david@usermode.org> was heard to say: > | The FreeBSD documentation project added several tags that they felt were > | needed. Among these were <devicename>, <hostid> and <username>. Isn't the As the author of the FreeBSD extensions. . . > <devicename> = <filename class="device"> Not necessarily. Not all devices have entries in /dev; traditionally, BSD hasn't included the network devices in there (anything you can manipulate with ifconfig). <systemitem class="device"> might also be appropriate. > <username> = <systemitem class="username"> That's certainly another way to do it. I decided to make these "first class" elements after observing that DocBook seemed to be moving that way -- the migration from <systemitem class="prompt"> to <prompt>, for example. Taking this further seemed like the natural thing to do. > I'm not sure what hostid means. I just wanted to point out that the > DocBook TC is responsive to user needs :-) RFE #124. http://www.docbook.org/rfe/view/cgi-bin/dbrfe.pl?showopen=1&showaccepted=1&showpending=1&showintegrated=1&showclosed=1&showrejected=1&showbug=1&showenh=1&showdocbug=1&showdocenh=1&sortby=rfenumber&action=show&rfenumber=124 Lest anyone get the wrong end of the stick, I don't think that rejecting these is necessarily a bad idea. DocBook can not be all things to all people -- thankfully, it's easy enough to extend that customisations can be made relatively easily. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery
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