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for the markup (and openjade 1.3.1 which has better table support) would be good? If you enclosed a small (fragment) example table from your document then that would be nice.... Regards, Ian. On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 22:39, Patrice L. Gariepy wrote: > Greetings all. I am documenting the dtd for an application at work. > Over the past few months, I have made sporadic attempts to use docbook > for this purpose. > > The succint version of the question is: How do I get linebreaks in my > xml to make it through to the pdf rendition of a docbook instance? > > I succeeded some time ago in using the dtdparse package from Norm Walsh > to generate some refentry content directly from our dtd. This past > week, I finally got around to trying to get jade + dsssl to do some > output of the docbook instance created by dtdparse. (BTW, the effort > and frustration of getting jade to do anything with xml just about put > an end to my efforts ;-) I used Walsh's modular dsssl stylesheets with > jade. I want pdf, so I got jade to put out tex, and then used jadetex > to get pdf. > > The problem is that Walsh's dtdparse package creates tables (to document > element content models in the dtd) in which the <entry> elements rely on > line breaks ((#xA) to format the entry, at least as far as I can tell. > When I run the tex file output by jade through pdfjadetex, the latter > reports that many of the tables are too wide. The problem is that the > table entries that are meant to be multi-line (i.e. broken by line > breaks) are all strung together to make one very wide table cell. > > I know neither dsssl nor jadetex, but don't mind learning. > > Does anyone have any bright ideas on how I might fix this problem? > > TIA. > > - Pat - >
