Re: DOCBOOK: formatting of texts in examples

On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:25:30PM +0100, Martin Monsorno wrote:

> when I insert examples into a docbook file, with the tags
> <programlisting> or <synopsis>,

I use <programlisting> a lot and I don't have these problems.

> in the postscript output the text is not correctly formatted, 
> e.g, linefeeds occur in the middle of a word or the indentation
> is not as it is in the source.

Are you sure you use only spaces, not tabs? There have been a
discussion on this list showing that tabs are not properly handled
(and that they are very difficult to handle properly). Be sure you
replace them with spaces.