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> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 23:17 +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> > Those forms normally require user chosen free text input, which should
> > be represented by a <var> in the help file.
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> Surely the text input is a value, not a variable? In:

<kbd>Cook<var>cooking time</var>Start</kbd>

is part of a hypothetical microwave oven instruction manual using var
for the user's (almost) free text input.  var is basic for meta names.
(My actual oven only has knobs and dials, so I can't easily use it as
a good example.)