From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Norman Walsh To: Jorge Godoy Cc: Dan Miner , docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: NEWBIE: getting your document structure right.. :) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: <4369-Wed23Feb2000070608-0500-ndw@nwalsh.com> References: <200002230442.VAA07833@edison.chisp.net> <20000223082034.G8077@conectiva.com.br> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00069.html / Jorge Godoy was heard to say: | On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 09:42:15PM -0700, Dan Miner wrote: | > | > | > my goal | > more details about why this goal is important, etc. | > my goal 2 | > more text about why this goal is important, etc. | > | > | > I understand display is somewhat a secondary concern but I'l hoping | > for a display like: | > | > * my goal | > more details about why this goal is important, etc. | > | > * my goal 2 | > more text about why this goal is important, etc. | | It seems to me like a variablelist. I agree, with perhaps some stylesheet tweaks to get precisely that formatting. | > Also, how can I express example information/code/command that is actually | > part of the paragraph flow? | > | > For example: | > | > Be sure to run G C000 your newly | > created program by using the monitor run or go command. | > | > Formatted as: | > Be sure to run (e.g. G C000) your newly created program by using the | > monitor run or go command. | | You'll have to create this new element or modify some element's | appearance using a stylesheet. Oh, I really try to avoid that answer whenever possible because it makes the documents much less portable. I'd be tempted myself to use , , or even before creating a new element. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh | If you are hankering after http://nwalsh.com/ | certainty, you are better advised | to seek it in religion: the | stock-in-trade of science is not | certainty but doubt.--K.C. Cole