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<li><em>To</em>: Greg Ferguson <<A HREF="mailto:gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com">gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: List formatting in Docbook -> PDF/PS</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Dan Scott <<A HREF="mailto:dan.scott@acm.org">dan.scott@acm.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:38:54 -0400 (EDT)</li>
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Greg:
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I took a quick look at a few of the reformatted Docbook -> PDF documents
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and my jaw dropped--they look really good. Nice work! (You too, Mark.)
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Dan
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Greg Ferguson wrote:
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> On Oct 15, 6:45pm, Dan Scott wrote:
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> > Subject: List formatting in Docbook -> PDF/PS
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> > Hello, just dropping in to chat about the formatting of lists through
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> > the Docbook -> PDF/PS transform. IIRC, we use jade to go from Docbook
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> > to HTML, then use htmldoc to go from HTML to PS and PDF. Unfortunately,
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> > there's a bug in this chain that ends up with list items having
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> > entirely too much vertical whitespace in the PDF and PS output.
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> > ...
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> I've got the fix for this (and quite a few other print-variant
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> related problems) in place. The first available doc to take
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> advantage of this is the HOWTO-INDEX. If you're at all interested,
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> you can see the new and hopefully improved PDF output here:
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> <A HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/HOWTO-INDEX.pdf">http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/HOWTO-INDEX.pdf</A>
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> This is based on work Mark Komarinski and I did while shaping the
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> LDP Author Guide (to get a decent print copy), and what was provided
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> to us by Dan Scott (thanks Dan...).
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> I intend to run the DocBook SGML content thru this to re-generate
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> their PDF and Postscript variants (if I'm not mistaken, only
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> those HOWTOs in DocBook were effected by these problems).
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> fyi,
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Dan Scott,
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Friend of the abnormal.
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<li><strong><a name="04148" href="msg04148.html">Re: List formatting in Docbook -> PDF/PS</a></strong>
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