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Re: Environment Variables in File/Directory Names
Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc@linuxweasel.com> writes:
> Yes, exactly. I just think that they way it's used in the examples in
> TDG is wrong. :-)
Flagging nonsense with smilies doesn't turn it into sense.
> I'm not expecting DocBook to do any variable lookup. I just can't find
> an element that makes sense for the value of a variable. People use
> literal, which I can't wrap my head around.
This is _your_ problem and not trying to solve it means causing trouble
for co-workers (or for your readers). Whenever you think an element is
missing use <phrase> or create a cstomization. Misusing an existing
element is the worst you can do (it undermines the idea of sementic
markup).
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