Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Request for comments: adding a Fileoutput element(RFE 613293)

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Norman Walsh wrote:

> How does this sound:
> 
> 1. Add 'verbatim'.
> 
> <!ELEMENT verbatim (...)>
> <!ATTLIST verbatim
>     class    (normal|monospaced) "monospaced"
>     contents CDATA               #IMPLIED
> 
> Contents is where you can say it's a configfile or a cprogram or
> whatever you like.
> 
> 2. We consider removing 'screen', 'synopsis', and 'literallayout' in
> favor of 'verbatim' at some point in the future.
> 
> We could remove programlisting too, but I'm very hesitant to do that.
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm

as long as we still have the concept of a <lineannotation> which,
personally, i want to be able to render in the font and style of my
choice.  would that cause a problem?

rday