Re: Formatting file names (bold vs monospace)

[Jen <jennee -at- gmail -dot- com>]

You're right, it's not *actually* consistent (even if it looks prettier).
Thanks Milan! (And Hannah who replied off-list.)


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Milan DavidoviÄ <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:

> On the other hand, if you made it consistent wouldn't you be
> introducing ambiguity (formatting something not to be clicked as
> something to be clicked)?
>
> --Milan DavidoviÄ
>
> Sent from my Yost 10
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Jen <jennee -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > In this case, would AnotherFile.txt be in bold or Courier? You're not
> > supposed to click it, so it should be formatted like a regular file name
> > (<filename> in DocBook, which in my case is output as Courier), but then
> it
> > looks inconsistent
>


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