On Wednesday 04 September 2002 13:41, Pam R wrote: > > "&L;" which expands to "<mousebutton>left</mousebutton> would be > preferable, but still not ideal unless meinproc automatically capitalizes > the first letter if it is the first word in a sentence ;-) > > But that raises another question in my mind, which is why do we need the > <mousebutton> tag at all? As far as I can see it doesn't affect the final > HTML.
It could. That possibility is enough. > <rant> > I believe that we have far too many markup tags, many of which seem to be > in practice equivalent; <keysym> vs. <keycap> for example. They aren't. > meinproc --check > will happily accept either <keysym>Enter</keysym> or <keycap>Enter</keycap> > so there is no feedback to the author saying whether what he has entered is > the correct choice (which should it be?). So why not have just one tag > here? Because they are not equivalent. We could easily run a script to distinguish them. Furthermore, once they become rendered differently, we'll realize the error soon. > There was some discussion a few months ago about the use of the <action> > tag in the Command Reference section of a handbook. As I understand it no > one could come up with a reason for using this tag. > > I also have to say that what really confuses me as a part-time author is > the different markup that seems to be applied to different parts of a > filename / path, for no apparent good reason. Don't trust the apparences ;-). -- ?ric Bischoff
