Re: [docbook-apps] Non-breaking space in <menuchoice>

[Zbyszek Cybulski <z.cybulski@gmail.com>]

Bob,

thank you very much. Your explanation is great, this is what I was
looking for. Really good lesson. I didn't realize this issue can be so
complex to solve.
FYI, I use Oxygen + XEP on Windows, so I hope everything you said will
work fine.

Rgds, 
Zbyszek


On 4/16/05, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> I think the first order of business is to replace the "-&gt;" string used to
> separate menu items. The hyphen is an invitation to the XSL-FO formatter to
> break at that point, which is obviously not desirable.  I have been using
> &#x2192; (right arrow, or &rarr; in the DocBook entities) in my
> customization, and decided after further testing to check it into CVS.  This
> is a single character and so it won't break, and it looks far better. It
> works in all the XSL-FO processors I tested, and in HTML browsers.  The
> stylesheets use a parameter named $menuchoice.menu.separator, so you could
> customize it yourself.
> 
> If you are using FOP, however, just entering the character won't work.
> That's because FOP will not find a character from the Symbol font
> automatically.  You have to put it inside an fo:inline to set the
> font-family="Symbol".  In the current stylesheet release, this won't work by
> just doing it in the parameteter because the stylesheets uses xsl:value-of
> to get the parameter value, which loses the fo:inline.  In CVS I changed it
> to xsl:copy-of, so it will work.  In other words, if you are using FOP, you
> should download the snapshot release.
> 
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshots/
> 
> In the parameter I added normal spaces around the arrow character, because I
> think it looks better, and because I wanted to allow line breaks in long
> menuchoices.  You could change the spaces to &#xA0; (nonbreaking spaces) in
> your customization of the parameter if you want.  You could also customize
> the template with match="menuchoice" to put the whole thing inside an
> <fo:inline keep-together.within-line="always"> if you want to always keep
> the set of menuitems together.  But again this won't work in FOP because it
> doesn't support it.
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zbyszek Cybulski" <z.cybulski@gmail.com>
> To: "docbook" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:29 AM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Non-breaking space in <menuchoice>
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is that possible to force inserting non-breaking spaces when using
> > <menuchoice>?
> > Or maybe to force an FO-PDF converter not to break lines when rendering
> > "->" between <guimenu> and <guimenuitem>?
> > In my PDF files, I very often get a sequence of menu options at the end
> > of the line, and usually they are broken between '-' and '>'. I'd prefer
> > moving the whole menu sequence to a new line instead of breaking the
> > sequence.
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > Zbyszek
> >
> >
> 
>