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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Undesirable whitespace after examples


Pavel,

The CSS fix works great. Thanks!

-- Richard.

--- Skopik Pavel <Pavel.Skopik@...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The newer version of the stylesheets produces extra paragraph with br
> element and class "example-break". This break is produced after other
> similar elements as well.
> 
> The only thing you may need to do is to add .example-break
> {display:none;} to your CSS stylesheet.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Pavel Škopík
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:23 PM
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Undesirable whitespace after examples
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working with a large existing manual that has a bunch of formal
> examples. The example element allows titles and easy listing in the
> TOC, so this has worked well. 
> 
> Part of my tinkering included updating the files to use the Docbook
> XML
> DTD v4.3 and more up-to-date XSL stylesheets; previously it was set
> up
> to use version 1.55.0 of the stylesheets. Unfortunately, using XSL
> stylesheets v1.71.0, the xsltproc-generated chunked HTML pages have a
> big chunk of whitespace underneath text which is surrounded by an
> example tag.
> 
> I'm not really familiar with XSL customizations. An example page
> generated using the old stylesheets - http://tinyurl.com/2gsc8w shows
> the examples integrating neatly with the text underneath. When
> generated using v1.71.0 extra space displays underneath each example
> (same page w/minor content updates): http://tinyurl.com/265xf6.
> 
> What specific change(s) can I make so that examples render as before,
> without the extra spacing?  Plus, would those changes cause problems
> for anybody building the docs using their own installed XSL
> stylesheets
> if they're anything other than v1.7x.x?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Richard.
> 
> P.S. The docs have environment variables (like $KDEDIRS) in them a
> lot.
> These were marked up as <envar>$KDEDIRS</envar>. Apparently that's
> incorrect and should be
> <parameter>$<envar>KDEDIRS</envar></parameter>.
> The parameter tag causes the chunked HTML output to be italicised,
> which (IMO) is less pretty. Is there a quick fix so it does not
> render
> the environment variable in italics?


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