On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: > > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > it seems that FOP is breaking a line in a rather unusual place. i'm > > using docbook, and i have a <variablelist>, where a single entry has > > two "terms": /bin and /usr/bin > > </snip> > > > just for fun, i attached the short PDF file. > ^^^^^^ > > If you hadn't, I probably wouldn't have been able to tell, but ... > > > am i doing something wrong? it's hard to see why FOP is making the > > line break decision that it is. > > > > ... I think this has something to do with the fact that '/bin, /usr/bin' > doesn't fit the surrounding table-cell (or sth of the sort). ;) ( Not sure > what hyphenation would apply in the case of pathnames... )
i'd already assumed that the line break was happening because there wasn't enough room to display the entire string "/bin, /usr/bin". but it's not at all clear why FOP chose to break the string where it did, when it would *seem* that breaking at that space would be the obvious place. by way of experimentation, with a longer, earlier term, i forced those table cells to be longer so that the string actually fit, and what i got was /bin, /usr/bin now, i started reducing the length of the table cell slightly until, finally, FOP was forced to break the string, and what i got was /bin, / usr/bin as before. in other words, FOP didn't just knock a character or two off the end, it whacked off that entire "usr/bin" portion. so FOP was clearly making a decision about where to break the string, and it decided to do it in a very unusual place. anyway, i'm still puzzled about how to deal with this. rday --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
