See the following section from Bob Stayton's book about using a
hyphenation character (e.g. an arrow of some kind) to indicate that a
line in a programlisting has been broken for typographical reasons:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/FittingText.html#BreakLongLines
David
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From: kate.wri...@sybase.com [mailto:kate.wri...@sybase.com]
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 2:25 PM
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [docbook] controlling the line length of programlisting
Has anyone tried to use schematron to enforce the line length of
programlisting?
We want to be able to limit the line-length of our
programlistings when we are authoring.
That is, we need to be informed when a line length in a
programlisting exceeds a number of characters (e.g., 72)
so that we can go in and format the lines properly. E.g., I'm
imagining that this would involve counting the number of characters
before a eol and then comparing
this number against the character limit (72).
If anyone has an alternative suggestion, that would be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you,
Kate
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Subject: Re: [docbook] prettyprinting code snippets
* From: Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnus...@gmail.com>
* To: DavePawson <da...@dpawson.co.uk>
* Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:59:31 +0200
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 19:01, DavePawson<da...@dpawson.co.uk>
wrote:
> Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>>
>> I am writing a an article in which I am including quite a
few xml
>> examples and snippets. I have been using <programlisting> but
was now
>> wondering if there is a way I can prettyprint those snippets.
Anyone?
>
>
> ONly if the code is well laid out in the first place?
> I try to break lines at <= 70 chars to make sure
> it fits on a screen.
>
> If you want code highlighting etc.. sorry no.
When the PHP documentations where using DocBook-XSL we used to
add a
customization layer to add special "tags" around
<programlisting>, and
then post process the output to syntax highlight and format
examples
(php, xml, ..).
For example with <programlisting role="php"><?php..
?></programlisting> the customization layer would generate
"<phpcode><?php.. ?></phpcode>" that was then post processed
with
other applications.
Currently we are using "PhD" (PHP based Docbook Renderer) which
handles all these kinds of things :)
-Hannes
docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
