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Re: how to annotate/callout a list of files
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>,docbook mailing list <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 16:44:20 -0800
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: how to annotate/callout a list of files
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211091316020.17597-100000@dell>
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:19:45PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> i want to list all of the files involved in the linux login process:
>
> /etc/passwd
> /etc/shadow
> /etc/group
> /etc/profile
>
> ... etc etc ...
>
> and would like to assign something like callouts to each file so i can
> expand on each one underneath the list. but, as i read it, "co"s can't
> be attached to list elements. so it seems i have two choices:
>
> 1) do the list as, possibly, a literallayout (which is possible)
>
> 2) use an actual list, and maybe attach footnotes (yuck ... that doesn't
> seem like the effect i'm going for.
>
> is there an obvious way to get this effect?
Here is a list of elements that can contain <co>:
computeroutput
literallayout
programlisting
prompt
replaceable
screen
synopsis
systemitem
userinput
If literallayout is not satisfactory, you might
try a list where each filename is wrapped in <systemitem>.
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