[publican-list] Inline tags within verbatim environment

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hello,

I don't have the habit to discuss decisions of maintainers but in this
particular case I would like the feedback of the wider community
on this specific bug report that got closed as NOTABUG despite
feedback from the upstream community proving that publican
was doing the weird thing here.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752851

The upstream docbook-xsl stylesheets do preserve whitespaces and
linebreaks in inlines elements within verbatim environment.

Do any of you have any document where you need the current Publican
behaviour of converting any sequence of whitespace/newlines to a single
space in inline tags within verbatim environments?

To me this behaviour just ensures that I'll never be able to use
any inline element within a verbatim tag because I'll lose
the formatting of my <screens> <programlisting> and so on.
It's really counter-productive IMO and I can't really see who
would like to lose his formatting...

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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