Hi Brendan,
For the filename element, you could try a customization like this:
<xsl:template match="d:filename">
<fo:inline keep-together.within-line="always">
<xsl:apply-imports/>
</fo:inline>
</xsl:template>
(Omit the d: in the match attribute if you are using DocBook 4.)
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Brendan DeTracey
To: pla...@ieee.org
Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook] pdf/html element customization - line breaks
I suppose I will manually backslash and linebreak for both html and pdf. I
now see that others have had to do this (Appendix A ,example A-7 from Advanced
Bash Scripting at Linux Documentation Project. Manual backslash in both html
and pdf versions.)
Now if only I could stop pdf from line-breaking filename elements. Any help
with this?
Thanks,
Brendan
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Plantz
To: Brendan DeTracey
Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook] pdf/html element customization - line breaks
On 3/18/2012 4:14 PM, Brendan DeTracey wrote:
Hello,
I have been using the computeroutput element, but have a problem with
line breaks in pdf when my line is too long. In html the user can resize the
window to fit the entire line of text but pdf breaks the line clumsily. How do
other authors deal with this issue?
Thanks,
Brendan
That's the difference between pdf and html. With pdf you specify the
presentation formats on the page. With html the reading device has a lot of
control over the presentation in the window. Even the user has some control
over an html presentation, but not with pdf.
My solution? I'm currently working on converting my textbook from LaTeX (to
produce pdf) to ePub (html under the hood). The tools for the conversion are
primitive, at best. Since it's a technical book (assembly language programming,
etc.), I'm having to eliminate a lot of the nice formatting that LaTeX allows
on the printed page. But students these days prefer electronic reading, even if
it means dealing with the problems of pdf on portable devices.
--Bob
