João Abecasis wrote:
I haven't looked into the OP's issue in particular, but here's my best
guess anyway.
BoostBook's stylesheets remove whitespace in a lot of places (basically
at the start and end of tags and in-between consecutive tags). We have
been working around this in QuickBook by outputting at places.
My first (and only) fix to a related issue contemplated code snippets
(<programlisting>), where I explicitly asked the stylesheet to preserve
whitespace. One way to fix similar issues is to add the relevant xml
elements to the preserve-space list in
tools/boostbook/xsl/docbook.xsl:line 23.
Another way to do this is to do what DocBook does and that is to have
preserve-space on all elements (elements="*") and single out the ones
where it is not significant with a strip-space. Perhaps it is time we
went this way as well.
I'm hoping that an empty strip-space list won't do much harm because we
still have the DocBook safety net below us. This should also render
obsolete all nbsp handling in QuickBook.
Comments?
I agree. I think that DocBook's behavior is the best approach.
It makes me wonder though why BoostBook chose a different approach.
Maybe Doug can shed some light? At any rate, I move that we
switch to the DocBook behavior. Is there a chance that this will
cause problems with BoostBook? I'd assume that if they do cause
some differences in output, those will be additions of white spaces
and not deletions --- which IMO is more disaster prone; as we've
come to realize.
Yeah! No more nbsp!
Regards,
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Joel de Guzman
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