On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 01:23 -0800, Gabriel Hurley wrote:

> IP addresses definitely don't belong in plain text since they're a
> value... so that option can be ruled out.

Hmm, I don't agree. They are not 'values' in the Python sense - if I
type 127.0.0.1 at a Python prompt I get a syntax error. They are no more
values than integers and floats (less so, by the above definition), and
we don't put any special markup around numbers. They would become values
if wrapped in quotes to make them Python strings.

So I would go for plain text with no quotes - it seems easier to read
that way and much more in keeping with how I've seen them written
elsewhere. If they appear in the sentence as text that must be typed,
then use the double ticks.  So I would have sentences like this:

   Note that the default IP address, 127.0.0.1, is not accessible from
   other machines on your network


   In the IP address field, enter ``127.0.0.1``.

Just my opinion,

Luke

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