Question

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

I'm looking at embedded code in docbook 5.


<programlisting>

$very long command line

</programlisting>


The problem is that I want to extract the command line
as working code, from the docbook, hence I can't embed
pseudo newlines/line break characters, as I would
for documentation.



Since I don't want to 'unwrap' all short lines,
I'm looking at ?? an extension ?? purely for
documentation?


<programlisting>

<line>$very long command line <linebreak/> etc etc

</line>

</programlisting>


I.e. to intimate that at <linebreak/> I want
(for the docbook 'print' output) a newline inserted
to keep the page width reasonable.

Is this / should this be an extension,
or might it be considered of sufficiently general use
for adoption?


Processing would be to replace the element with
a media appropriate break.


regards



regards

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