I think literallayout is the appropriate element. As the Definitive Guide says, " it
does not have strong semantic overtones". You can add a class="monospaced" attribute
if you want that font in the output.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 5:42 AM
Subject: [docbook] the proper markup for displaying a file snippet?
> (apologies for such trivial questions -- i'm only just getting back to docbook
> after quite some time away.)
>
> if i wanted to display the contents (or an excerpt thereof) of a simple text file
> such as, say, a config file, what is the semantically proper element? i don't want
> to use <programlisting> because it's not technically a program. and
> <literallayout> and <screenshot> seem similarly inappropriate. what i want is
> something equivalent to <filelisting>. what do people here use for that? thanks.
>
> rday
>
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