In other words, it's really only an issue if you want to distinguish among the contents of a <screen> tag by marking them up differently.
Marking up what the user enters and what the computer displays seems like a logical use-case, but yeah it relies on <userinput> and <computeroutput> being presented differently on output to make any sense. - Josh ~ Kirtan is Life! ~ Sent from my iPhone. On 17/11/2011, at 7:04 PM, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Jeff Fearn wrote: >> I'd love an example of a screen that doesn't contain "Text that a >> user sees or might see on a computer screen" AND does contain >> computer output. >> >> screen is the verbatim brother of computeroutput, I've never seen an >> example of where nesting them isn't pointless, but I would love to >> see such an example! So bring one on and I will reconsider my >> position. > > Ok, you can argue that <computeroutput> is useless in <screen> and I could > agree with that (but then why is it allowed by the standard in the first > place?). > > But the story is the same with <userinput> and this one is really useful > to highlight the part of the screen that the user is supposed to type > (it's rendered in bold while computeroutput is usually not, except that > Publican overrides this...)! Here's one example where you might want to > keep the linebreaks and the multiple spaces. > > <screen> > $ <userinput>cat >crontab <<END > # min hours day month dow command > 0 19 * * * fetchmail > END</userinput> > $ <userinput>crontab crontab</userinput> > </screen> > > Cheers, > -- > Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer > > Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help > liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/go/ulule-rh/ > > _______________________________________________ > publican-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list > Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican _______________________________________________ publican-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican
