Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.67.0 released

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Peter Eisentraut <>
Date
2004-11-11T17:24:37+00:00
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Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.67.0 released
Michael Smith wrote:
> Yes there is, though you may not agree with it. The reason is so
> that when it get rendered, the "stuff you need to type in" shows
> up more strongly than the "stuff that computer outputs" -- so
> that you can easily distinguish between them. This is a convention
> that's used in many books and is not unique to DocBook.

But that is exactly what HTML's KBD means.  Quotation from the 
specification:

KBD: Indicates text to be entered by the user.

There is, in my mind, a one-to-one correspondence between userinput and 
KBD.  So when the browser designers chose the rendering KBD, they 
specifically (albeit possibly sloppily) chose the rendering for exactly 
"stuff you need to type in".  Whatever they chose should be the 
rendering for userinput.