Hi, I've noticed this too. First of all, the SGML source never can do anything wrong to cause less optimal looking output. This is always a problem in the output generators. This is supposed to be the whole idea (or at least a part) behind SGML. So, you don't have to worry about the tutorial being the cause of this.
I think it's a problem with Lout. If you have a normalized SGML source file, the text itself is indented using spaces. Apparently Lout doesn't ignore them and outputs some of them. A solution is to remove leading and trailing spaces before letting Lout do its job (not in examples where it usually is explicitly present). That line breaks matter is new to me. Maybe it's time for filing some bug reports against Lout. As fas a going to LaTeX, this is already on the TODO list for version 1.1. The German version of the installation manual package has a LaTeX output generator and I already talked with Christian Leutloff about "moving" it to DebianDoc-SGML. It will be implemented such that there's a choice between using either Lout of Latex for going to PostScript (at least for now). So, this will be available in one of the next releases. In general, if there're more ideas for improving the generated output or things which look "ugly", please let me know. For now I already have plans to improve and align the author/version/copyright parts of the documents as well as the example layout. Thanks, Ardo Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This has been bothering me for a little while. The postscript output from > DebianDoc seems to have a lot of little glitches, like extra or missing > spaces; line breaks seem to matter, where in LaTeX they would not. Is this > problem with DebianDoc or lout? How difficult would it be to use LaTeX > instead, if the latter? Is this a known problem? Does the tutorial do > something wrong to cause this? > > Havoc -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://www.tip.nl/users/ardo.van.rangelrooij PGP fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
