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Re: <screen>-- </screen>
- To: Peter Toft <pto at sslug dot dk>
- Subject: Re: <screen>-- </screen>
- From: Wookey <wookey at aleph1 dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:28:54 +0000 (GMT)
- cc: DocBook Mailing List <docbook-tools-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On Thu 22 Feb, Peter Toft wrote:
> I asked about this a year ago, and nobody really could
> help me - here goes again:
>
> Using -- in a screen gives an irritating problem in PS
> og PDF-output; look at this one
>
> <screen>
> d--x--x--x DIR1
> dr-xr-xr-x DIR2
> </screen>
>
> The output looks in HTML like this (fine)
> d--x--x--x DIR1
> dr-xr-xr-x DIR2
>
> However PS/PDF sees two consequtive minus-signs as a
> long minus, i.e.
>
> d-x-x-x DIR1
> dr-xr-xr-x DIR2
>
>
> It really looks stupid for directory-listings- can I
> use a trick to get out of this situation - or trick
> pdfjadetex to not combine two minus-signs?
Does using ‐‐ not work in this context? that's what I used when I
noticed this problem (in exactly the same sort of text, of course). Mine are
inside <literallayout> tags rather than <screen> but I'd hope that wouldn't
matter.
Wookey
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