Re: DOCBOOK: Re: marking up keycaps according to their semantics

[Tobias Reif <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com>]

Tim Waugh wrote:


> I always understood <keycap> to mean the actual writing on the
> physical key.


Makes sense for character keys; see the other posts.

> Of course, <keycap/> probably isn't a good way
> of describing the space bar.. ;-)


Yes it isn't; there is no space character included.

Probably
  <keycap> </keycap>
is a better way.

A more robust way (concering whitespace handling in XML tools) might be 
to allow

  <keycap function="space"/>

but this is only a workaround for whitespace issues since the space key 
(typically) isn't a function key.


Tobi


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