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Re: RFE #480954: Extend textobject to insert external files
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- To: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 18:03:47 -0500
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: RFE #480954: Extend textobject to insert external files
- References: <871yfzljjc.fsf@nwalsh.com> <20020205144445.J2382@caldera.com>
/ Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com> was heard to say:
[...]
| I'm generally supportive of this approach to including
| text files as valid objects. But I question its inclusion
| in inlinemediaobject. Consider that the textobject is
| to be linespecific, that is, needs to preserve
There's nothing linespecific about the textobject itself. It gets that
property from the container that it's in. Just like <emphasis> isn't
linespecific except inside other linespecific environments.
| whitespace. What is it doing inline? Surely you don't
| expect to put a linespecific text object in the middle of a
| para.
Uh...well, not unless you put a programlisting in there. :-)
| I suggest adding textobject and textdata as valid children of
| programlisting and literallayout. I think that would
Textobject or textdata? I don't think it makes sense to add both.
Be seeing you,
norm
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