Re: [docbook-apps] Re: xml/groff: comments in text=>whitespace stripped?!

[Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:56:17AM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:

> I would argue that this is incorrect.
> Since newline is syntactically significant in groff,
> arbitrarily removing it is a bug.

But then the following would have all spaces preserved:

     <para>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
       Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem
       ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum
       dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor
       sit amet.</para>

And that would create:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
       Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem
       ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum
       dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor
       sit amet.

rather than:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem
ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum
dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.  Lorem ipsum dolor
sit amet.

which is actually what you want.

> could you please be more specific?
> How do I work around it?

You can override it by just defining it again in your own stylesheet
layer.

Tim.
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