[StrongED] Re: StrongED Instructions

["Richard Torrens (lists)" <Lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <e59a03e2064d10a2149f502b911e844c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Jeremy Nicoll - ml sed <jn.ml.sed45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2017-12-17 17:14, Richard Torrens (lists) wrote:
> > In article <mpro.p13slx01fqtqk025n.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >    Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> If you can write simple HTML web pages, you can mark up a manual in 
> >> XML.
> >> HTML is just one subset of XML, and in this case you define tags for
> >> things like sections of the document, images, the names of icons in
> >> dialogue boxes, menu entry names, and so on.
> > 
> > Sounds like XML is so similar to html it's not worth the bother.

> It IS worth the bother, because it allows you to 'tag' information that
> is significant in particular ways.

So does html.

> For example, you might want (in the final documents) to format a
> keyboard shortcut in a particular way.  If you were preparing the
> document in HTML you'd enter it (perhaps using HTML entities) and
> surround it with the HTML tags that tell a browser how to display it.

> But in XML you'd simply surround it with, say:

>    <SEshortcut>Ctrl-D</SEshortcut>

How is that easier than <span class="shortcut">Ctrl-D</span>

Either way I would use !Makro to put in the tags.

> That allows later processing to dig out all the references to SE
> shortcuts throughout the documents, and completely defers the decisions
> about how, in any output format, such a shortcut should actually be
> represented.  

It's called a CSS sheet defining the class...

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Kindly NO MORE DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW TO DO THIS!

SUBJECT CLOSED - or I QUIT!

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