2008/7/2 David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Cameron Kerr wrote:
>
>> <command> is expected to be formatted inline; shouldn't you use a
>> pre-formatted environment such as a <programlisting> or a <screen>? Here is
>> what I have used, which is rendered to HTML and PDF (via a custom stylesheet
>> to TeXML and XeTeX)
>>
>> <programlisting>Feb 10 18:32:22 <replaceable>hostname</replaceable>
>> sshd[<replaceable>pid</replaceable>]: Accepted publickey for
>> <replaceable>username</replaceable> from <keycap>↩</keycap>
>> <replaceable>source-ip</replaceable> port
>> <replaceable>source-port</replaceable> ssh2</programlisting>
>>
>> In case you can't see it, the thing inside the <keycap> is a LEFTWARDS
>> ARROW WITH HOOK, or U+21A9. I've misappropriated <keycap> here because the
>> font I use for <keycap> has all the symbols I need (XeTeX doesn't have a
>> fall-back font selection mechanism... grrr)
>>
>> On 1/07/2008, at 2:27 PM, David O'Brien wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know if this is possible, and how to do it?
>>> I'm writing computer software doc and some of the commands are quite long
>>> (> length of 1 line) and I'd like to use a backslash and continue the
>>> command on the next line.
>>>
>>> Failing that, can anyone recommend an alternative approach? This would
>>> also be useful when I want to list several consecutive commands, but don't
>>> want to break them up with <para> tags.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>
>> --Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Teaching Fellow, Computer Science, University of Otago
>> NOTE: I only check my e-mail at 11am each day, to improve time management.
>>
>>
>>  I guess this falls under the "alternative approach" heading, which I'm
> quite happy to go with. It's only over relatively recent times that we've
> moved into docbook and what could be called complete markup (vs. just
> tagging the major components), so we're bound to run into a few of these
> questions along the way.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
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I'm new to docbook, but would <cmdsynopsis> be of use?

There is a parameter called cmdlength which "Indicates the displayed length
of the command; this information may be used to intelligently indent command
synopses which extend beyond one line"

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