screenshot instructions

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Wed Sep 1 15:29:06 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 08:07, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 10:10, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
> > <programlisting>
> > # The following line should be changed.
> > MyVariable = <emphasis>NewValue</emphasis>
> > MyVariableContext = default
> > </programlisting>
> 
> I could agree with the <programlisting> part here, but I think in the
> interest of consistency and sensibility, use <userinput> instead of
> <emphasis> if that's something the user is expected to enter. Again, I
> think these are minor points and are probably just better left for an
> editor to simply fix as required or desired, provided the sense and
> context are unaffected by a change.

For config files, we should use <screen> and <computeroutput>. 
<programlisting> is only for listing source code.

- Karsten
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