Re: [docbook-apps] xsl:text and "\fB" results in \efB in manpageoutput

[Paul DuBois <paul@kitebird.com>]

Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Am Montag, den 19.03.2007, 18:41 -0500 schrieb Paul DuBois:
>> Daniel Leidert wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> If I use e.g.
>>>
>>> <xsl:template match="literal">
>>>   <xsl:text>\fB</xsl:text>
>>>   <xsl:apply-templates/>
>>>   <xsl:text>\fR</xsl:text>
>>> </xsl:template>
>>>
>>> in the customization layer for a manpage XSLT stylesheet, I get an
>>> output of:
>>>
>>> \efB...\efR
>>>
>>> I'm wondering, what is so different to using
>>>
>>> <xsl:template match="literal">
>>>   <xsl:apply-templates mode="bold" select="."/>
>>> </xsl:template>
>>>
>>> which results in \fB...\fR? I can reproduce this issue with the latest
>>> release, but not with the latest snapshot. I'm wondering, what's causing
>>> this (different) behaviour? Can someone point me into the right
>>> direction?
>> Which difference are you referring to? The difference between releases?
> 
> No. Between the output of both examples. Releases may differ in
> behaviour of course :)
> 
>> Or the difference between the output from your two examples? (The
>> output for both looks reasonable to me.)
> 
> They do not look reasonable to me.

Which output looks unreasonable, and what were you expecting instead?

I would expect a literal "\" to come out as "\\" or "\e" ("\e"
preferably), and I would expect markup instructions such as "bold"
to produce something like \fB ... \fR, which is what you're showing
above.


> But I found it. In the 1.72.0
> release, the mode="bold" template used
> 
> "&#x2593;fB"
> 
> to avoid the substitution (by the substitution map). This explains the
> different behaviour. It would have been nice to announce it in the
> Release Notes. But I cannot find a special note there.
> 
> Regards, Daniel
> 
> 
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