On 9/17/10 9:59 AM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
> 
>>> Hmm -- I have been building Shorewall recently on my MacBook; if I build
>>> it on a system running Lenny (xmlto 0.0.20-5), the margins look better.
>>>     
>>
>> Although xmlto is just a front-end for xsltproc and friends; that's were
>> the issue probably lies.
>>   
> I am not familiar with the man page format, but in the xml/xslt world 
> you are king - you can twist and turn every single aspect of the xml 
> document tree. I also see that Docbook uses the FOP library, which even 
> though is a bit tedious to work with, it gives you great control over 
> the format and layout of a page, but I guess at the end it all depends 
> on how all this is translated into a man page...

I'll just build releases on a linux box for the time being; I've been
using the MacBook because it is fast and quiet (My Lenny box is a 3.4Gz
P4 and during XML->man/html conversions, the CPU fan sounds like a B-29).

-Tom
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Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________

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