DOCBOOK: Re: Looking for a tag analogous to HTML's <code>

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Brian Lalonde <brianiacus@yahoo.com> was heard to say:
| Is there a tag for marking up source code statements and constructs inline?

There's an odd gap here, probably stemming from the fact that inline code
is often something else (a function, a variable name, etc.).

The grab-bag for this is probably <literal>. What sort of statements do you
want to put inline?

| Another mapping from HTML I have not found is the title attribute.
| I have, in the past, used this extensively to provide additional detail WRT
| links.

This came up recently[1]. Unfortunately, no good proposals for how to
address the problem have followed.

| I am tempted to use xreflabel; would this be abusive?

Definitely. Abusing role is probably a better bet.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200201/msg00370.html
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