Hi Jon, I think the browsers may have accepted that people do this and try to give a good display. I think Kindle acctually shows it correct. The instruction <li> <p> Text </p> </li> basically says: first make a list item then a paragraph and then the text.
Best regards, Lars 2011/10/29 Jon Rosen <jon.ro...@ucirrus.com> > To be clear though, this is a problem with the mobi browser rendering of > list items that are wrapped in <p> tags, not docbook. > > The rendering of a <p> inside an <li> should NOT put the dot on a separate > line. I tested this in Firefox and IE. The <p> tag adds some spacing above > and below the line, but the dot remains on the first paragraph line. > > Jon Rosen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:ji...@kosek.cz] > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 3:28 PM > To: Lars Vogel > Cc: DocBook Apps > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Generated epub to mobi - lists are incorrectly > displayed > > On 28.10.2011 16:38, Lars Vogel wrote: > > > I'm generating epubs via Docbook and the epub XSLT stylesheets. If I > > convert them to mobipocket for the Kindle lists are incorrectly > displayed. > > > > <ul><li> Hello </li> </ul> > > > > The dot is in one line and the text in another. Screenshot attached. > > > > I tried kindlegen and Calibre. > > > > Anyone know how to solve this? > > The problem is that DocBook stylesheets wrap content of listitem in <p> > (because originaly it was <para> in DocBook). The easiest way how to fix > this is to postprocess generated XHTML files and remove <p>s inside <li>. > I'm using attached XSLT transformation (inspired by code provided by Adam > Witwer originaly). > > Jirka > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jirka Kosek e-mail: ji...@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Professional XML consulting and training services > DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- Lars http://www.vogella.de - Eclipse, Android and Java Tutorials http://www.twitter.com/vogella - Lars on Twitter
