Well, I don't know which version you've been using, but with version 1.1.41 everything is ok w.r.t. examples in text format. I've also played around with various examples in and out of <p>s, putting the <example> immediately after (= even without a space!) the preceding text, etc. Everytime the example came out nice with a blank line before and after the example. So, there's nothing wrong here.
I've also used the latest version from the boot-floppies CVS repository (which doesn't have <example>s in separate <p>s) and there everything is also ok. If there were something wrong with examples I would have catched that already some ago when I explicitly work on them to get a consistent look in all formats. Thanks, Ardo "J.A. Bezemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:26:46AM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > > especially the <p>-surrounding of every <example>, which looks _much_ > > > better in the .txt and doesn't seem to affect other output formats. > > > > I seem to remember that debiandoc-sgml maintainer told me not do do this. > > Than let him fix the text-mode output. Which can't be done any more for > potato, so we should use a workaround. > > > And I don't understand why is it so much better, not even why is it > > different. > > Compare this: > > ---------- text mode, without <p>'s > if `/dev/hdc' is your CD-ROM drive, `/etc/fstab' should contain a > line > /dev/hdc /cdrom auto defaults,noauto,ro 0 0 > To test this, insert a CD and give commands > ---------- > > ---------- text mode, with <p>'s > if `/dev/hdc' is your CD-ROM drive, `/etc/fstab' should contain a > line > > /dev/hdc /cdrom auto defaults,noauto,ro 0 0 > > To test this, insert a CD and give commands > ---------- > > I've seen _many_ scientific and computer-related texts (being a student also > has advantages...), and never ever I saw something like the without-<p>'s > version. It's just a mess. > > Also, even without <p>'s, all other output formats (html, ps, pdf) DO have > whitespace, so I suppose this is the way it was intended, and that it should > be that way for text-mode, too. The fact that it's not is a bug in > debiandoc-sgml or related things. -- Ardo van Rangelrooij home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://home.flevonet.nl/~avrangel, http://www.debian.org/~ardo PGP fp: 3B 1F 21 72 00 5C 3A 73 7F 72 DF D9 90 78 47 F9
