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Re: how to represent key sequence "Ctrl Alt Fn"??
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- To: Adam DiCarlo <adam at onshored dot com>
- Cc: docbook mailing list <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 07:18:31 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: how to represent key sequence "Ctrl Alt Fn"??
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Adam DiCarlo wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:
>
> > but what if i wanted to similarly represent "Ctrl Alt Fn", where
> > the "n" part was replaceable? is there any way to add parameters
> > to regular entity definitions?
>
> Not really. An entity can use another entity, but a reference to an
> entity cannot include a parameter. You could have a Perl or shell
> script that kicked out &ctrl.alt.f1; &ctrl.alt.f2; ... entities, or
> you could attack it on the style side. Could create a custom tag
> which takes and arg (functionnum) and then handle display in the DSSSL
> or XSL.
or, since i only ever expect to use n = 1..7, i could just hardcode
all seven possibilites and be done with it -- that sounds like the
easiest weasel way out of this. :-)
rday