[docbook-apps] Re: Bug #849312 shade.verbatim not working in programlistingco

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> was heard to say:
| Yes, let's move the DocBook HTML into the modern age and not
| use tables for such formatting hack.  8^)

What can I say? It seemed like a good idea at the time...

| There are some other uses of HTML tables that could use a looking at,

The others have to be explicitly enabled. I suppose we could remove
them too, but getting some aspects of list formatting right with CSS
might be a real challenge.

| as well as the vestiges of formatting elements like <b>.

I think I ripped most of those out the other day when I applied a
patch.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | There is hopeful symbolism in the
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