Code snippets for print vs web

[Ben Mansheim]

Anyone have suggestions for how to handle presenting code snippets in print and web?

My inclination would be to put it in a grey box (ie table cell). However the box can only be 16 cm wide in print and will require long lines to wrap, whereas it can be much longer on a web page to avoid wrapping lines. In AIT, the table width is set the same for both print and web.

Looking forward to your creative replies.

Ben

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[Phil Americus]

Why not just use a "code" style and give the text a gray background in the "Web" tab for the style? (FYI: This is similar to the Note style)

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Phil

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[Ben Mansheim]

If I do that, then the background color be with the text,
Instead of creating a nice even block of grey.

That's a good try but not exactly what I'm looking for.

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[Yehuda Rock]

Ben, in Word you need to apply Shading to the Paragraph rather than to Text (I think this should be the only option when modifying the pgph style).

[Miriam Lottner]

Why not just modify the help style to size accordingly in HTML?

This can be done and we do it for other customers (for table widths also-here you want a table width of X in PDF but Y in HTML).

Miriam

 

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[Ben Mansheim]

Hi all,

Sorry, it was a false alarm. I published a test of both the Word and HTML and the table is extended in the HTML to contains all of the text without wrapping.

Thanks for you attention, though.

Ben

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