[kde-doc-english] Appropriate markup?

Frederik Fouvry fouvry at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE
Wed Oct 22 13:49:17 CEST 2003


,-- On Wed, 22 Oct, Lauri Watts wrote:
| 
| On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09.43, Will Stephenson wrote:
| > I'm working on the Kopete manual, and could do with a tip on the right
| > markup 
 to use for some application states that users should be aware of,
| > but that don't map exactly to a particular GUI item.  In chat systems you
| > can have a presence, eg. 'Away' or 'Available', that affects your
| > interaction with the system - how would you recommend I mark these up in
| > the manual?  I don't really want to use quotes throughout the text.
| 
| Uhm... property perhaps?
| 
| http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/property.html
| 
| It's previously unused in KDE docs, but It's inline, and non-specific in 
| nature, so I think this is a suitable application of it, unless anyone can 
| come up with something better.   

Sounds OK.

Frederik


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