Ah. I placed it into my document custom-cfg common.xsl instead of fo.xsl . So much to learn, so little time. Thanks for taking the time to answer this beginner's question. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Stayton To: Brendan DeTracey ; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [docbook] pdf/html element customization - line breaks
It works for me with filename formatting when I import the stock docbook-xsl-1.76.1 stylesheets. I'm not clear how DobuDish works, so I cannot explain why you are losing your formatting. The xsl:import statement should pick up the default template with match="filename", which applies the format. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Brendan DeTracey To: Bob Stayton ; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [docbook] pdf/html element customization - line breaks Thanks Bob. I am using DobuDish which I thought was 5, but it did not like the d: so I removed it. The file names are now unbroken however they no longer have a font style. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Stayton To: Brendan DeTracey ; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [docbook] pdf/html element customization - line breaks Hi Brendan, For the filename element, you could try a customization like this: <xsl:template match="d:filename"> <fo:inline keep-together.within-line="always"> <xsl:apply-imports/> </fo:inline> </xsl:template> (Omit the d: in the match attribute if you are using DocBook 4.) Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Brendan DeTracey To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 6:00 AM Subject: Re: [docbook] pdf/html element customization - line breaks I suppose I will manually backslash and linebreak for both html and pdf. I now see that others have had to do this (Appendix A ,example A-7 from Advanced Bash Scripting at Linux Documentation Project. Manual backslash in both html and pdf versions.) Now if only I could stop pdf from line-breaking filename elements. Any help with this? Thanks, Brendan ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Plantz To: Brendan DeTracey Cc: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [docbook] pdf/html element customization - line breaks On 3/18/2012 4:14 PM, Brendan DeTracey wrote: Hello, I have been using the computeroutput element, but have a problem with line breaks in pdf when my line is too long. In html the user can resize the window to fit the entire line of text but pdf breaks the line clumsily. How do other authors deal with this issue? Thanks, Brendan That's the difference between pdf and html. With pdf you specify the presentation formats on the page. With html the reading device has a lot of control over the presentation in the window. Even the user has some control over an html presentation, but not with pdf. My solution? I'm currently working on converting my textbook from LaTeX (to produce pdf) to ePub (html under the hood). The tools for the conversion are primitive, at best. Since it's a technical book (assembly language programming, etc.), I'm having to eliminate a lot of the nice formatting that LaTeX allows on the printed page. But students these days prefer electronic reading, even if it means dealing with the problems of pdf on portable devices. --Bob
