Thanks Bob. I am using DobuDish which I thought was
5, but it did not like the d: so I removed it.
The file names are now unbroken however they no
longer have a font style.
----- Original Message -----
From:
Bob Stayton
To: Brendan DeTracey ;
Cc:
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 2:05
PM
Subject: Re: [docbook] pdf/html element
customization - line breaks
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
----- Original Message -----
From:
Brendan DeTracey
To:
Cc:
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:
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
