Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:15:35 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spacing (again) in handbook with netscape Message-ID: <20010712111535.Q97290@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20010712104825.D42931@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:48:25AM %2B0200 References: <20010712104825.D42931@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:48:25AM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> Am I not supposed to do this? Or is this just a bug with netscape?
Bit of both. The generated HTML isn't perfect, but Netscape could do a
better job of rendering it -- Konq and IE get it right.
Having looked at the markup, in this particular instance these should
all be <programlisting> anyway, which is expected to be formatted as a
separate block. I've made the necessary changes.
FWIW, the DocBook stylesheets enforce this; <screen> is handled by code
in dbverb.dsl which does this;
(element screen ($verbatim-display$
%indent-screen-lines%
%number-screen-lines%))
it might be worth rewriting that so it checks to see if an immediate
ancestor of the screen element is <para>, and if so, to adopt the same
behaviour as that when processing the <literal> element. However, I'm
not sure if it's worth it. If nothing else, the current style makes it
very easy for the reader to skim the documentation picking out command
lines to cut and paste -- putting those command lines inside paragraphs
makes that a bit more difficult.
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