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