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RE: [docbook] keycap proposal
- From: Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>
- To: 'Bob Stayton' <bobs at sco dot com>, John Levon <levon at movementarian dot org>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:01:53 -0400
- Subject: RE: [docbook] keycap proposal
That seems reasonable. Perhaps the documentation for this attribute in TDG
could very specifically refer to this parameter entity.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sco.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:20 PM
> To: John Levon
> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook] keycap proposal
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:44:46PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:36:55AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote:
> >
> > > So the proposed new attributes for keycap are:
> > >
> > > function (alt
> > > |control
> > > [snip]
> >
> > This seems overly focused on PC keyboards. What about the
> keys to the
> > left of a Sun keyboard such as "Undo" etc. ? What about any other
> > number of particular keys ? I don't see how this can usefully scale
> > under the "other" attribute.
>
> The list was intended intended to include keys that are
> common across several keyboards. There are dozens of keys
> on various keyboards around the world that could not be
> included in the list.
>
> The 'other' attributes let you mark up
> other function keys.
>
> <keycap function="other" otherfunction="undo"/>
> <keycap function="other" otherfunction="f3"/>
>
> How does this not meet your needs?
>
> If people feel extending the enumerated list
> would be a common need, then we could add a
> parameter entity to the attribute declaration:
>
> function (alt
> |control
> |shift
> |...
> |pagedown
> |other %local.keycap.function ) #IMPLIED
>
> Then a DTD customization could declare:
>
> <!ENTITY % local.keycap.function "|undo|f3">
>
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