Re: [docbook-apps] make.clean.html and Firefox handling of white-space: pre ?

[Mark Craig <mark.craig@gmail.com>]

Hi Bob,

I was thinking of trying https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116083#c43 :

> Joseph Lenton 2011-09-28 09:45:06 PDT
> Workaround:
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> Convert each new line character into a '<br>' tag, and each space into '&nbsp;'. The browser will convert these back into newlines and spaces when they are copied by the user.
Regards,
Mark

On Feb 10, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Bob Stayton wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> The 'make.clean.html=1' setting replaces <pre> with <div> and class attribute in the HTML output.  What sort of workaround did you have in mind?  Adding another param that would keep make.clean.html for other things but override this output to <pre>?
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Craig" <mark.craig@gmail.com>
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> Subject: [docbook-apps] make.clean.html and Firefox handling of white-space: pre ?
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> Hello,
> 
> I liked setting <xsl:param name="make.clean.html" select="1" /> and using "white-space: pre;" in the CSS. Of course, I did this expecting readers to be able to copy/paste the pre formatted content in a sort of WYSIWYG way.
> 
> But I didn't test in Firefox until a reviewer mentioned that all the newlines were gone when he pasted. Then I saw https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116083 : copy paste of CSS "white-space: pre;" content does not preserve whitespace.
> 
> This Firefox bug has been around for some time. It doesn't seem to be going away soon. Are there any plans to work around it in a future version of the DocBook XSL stylesheets?
> 
> Regards,
> Mark
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