Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How do I handle line breaks in table entries fromdtdparse?

[Ian Castle <ian dot castle at looksystems dot co dot uk>]

Maybe

<screen></screen>

for the markup (and openjade 1.3.1 which has better table support) would
be good?

If you enclosed a small (fragment) example table from your document then
that would be nice....

Regards,


Ian.


On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 22:39, Patrice L. Gariepy wrote:
> Greetings all.  I am documenting the dtd for an application at work.
> Over the past few months, I have made sporadic attempts to use docbook
> for this purpose.
> 
> The succint version of the question is:   How do I get linebreaks in my
> xml to make it through to the pdf rendition of a docbook instance?
> 
> I succeeded some time ago in using the dtdparse package from Norm Walsh
> to generate some refentry content directly from our dtd.   This past
> week, I finally got around to trying to get jade + dsssl to do some
> output of the docbook instance created by dtdparse.  (BTW, the effort
> and frustration of getting jade to do anything with xml just about put
> an end to my efforts ;-)   I used Walsh's modular dsssl stylesheets with
> jade.  I want pdf, so I got jade to put out tex, and then used jadetex
> to get pdf.
> 
> The problem is that Walsh's dtdparse package creates tables (to document
> element content models in the dtd) in which the <entry> elements rely on
> line breaks ((#xA) to format the entry, at least as far as I can tell.
> When I run the tex file output by jade through pdfjadetex, the latter
> reports that many of the tables are too wide.  The problem is that the
> table entries that are meant to be multi-line (i.e. broken by line
> breaks) are all strung together to make one very wide table cell.
> 
> I know neither dsssl nor jadetex, but don't mind learning.
> 
> Does anyone have any bright ideas on how I might fix this problem?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> - Pat -
>