Re: [docbook] Marking up exercices

[Joachim Ziegler <ziegler at mpi-sb dot mpg dot de>]

Bob Stayton wrote:
> You might try replacing your space with a nonbreaking space:
>
> <xsl:text>Exercise&#160;</xsl:text>
>  

This works well for the HTML output, but in PDF output, the space 
vanishes, so you have something like "Exercise1".


> An alternative is a processing instruction in
> the qandaset to widen the left column:
>
> <?dbhtml label-width="15%" ?>
>
> > And why is a table generated at all?
>
>
> I'm not sure, but I suspect to permit the alignment of the
> question and answer labels and paragraphs.  A table permits
> more control over the formatting than a <dl> list provides.


Would it be hard to customize my stylesheet so that it does not create a 
table, but merely somthing like "Exercise 1: bla bla bla..."?

A table is not appropriate for the printed version here.

Where do I have to start from?

Joachim


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