Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 13:17:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Another CSS suggestion: pre-wrap Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307281308390.10705@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <51F56688.5040900@FreeBSD.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307281057160.9642@wonkity.com> <51F558D2.1010808@FreeBSD.org> <51F56688.5040900@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > On 2013.07.28. 19:45, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: >> On 2013.07.28. 19:00, Warren Block wrote: >>> Long lines in screen and programlisting elements run off the right side of >>> the screen with the current CSS. >>> >>> It would be great to have them wrap and include a visible a line wrap >>> indicator, but that may not be possible, or may require Javascript. >>> >>> Better than nothing is to have them at least have forced wrapping based on >>> screen width. That can be done with changes in div.screen and >>> div.programlisting: >>> >>> - white-space: pre; >>> + white-space: pre-wrap; >>> >>> This seems to work well, other than there being no visible marker where a >>> line is wrapped due to screen width. >>> >>> Is there a better way to accomplish this? >> This seems to work: >> http://iany.me/2012/02/css-line-wrap-indicator/ >> >> The wrapping of programlisting content into span elements can be done in >> XSLT. > This seems to does the XSLT-part, although it may be done in a better way > since it breaks some DocBook features that we don't use: > http://kovesdan.org/patches/xhtml-wrap.diff Nice! Which DocBook features would be compromised? Are there any other reasons not to start using this now?
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