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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Printing double/triple-dash within tex/pdftex
At 01:00 PM 5/8/01 +0200, Georg Lohrer wrote: >Hello, Hmmm, can you wrap your lines correctly. It makes quoting easier. >I'm new to DocBook and quite familiar with LaTeX, pdfLaTeX. I'm running >DocBook 4.1 and have written a document with several <screen> tags in it. I >discovered a really strange behaviour with some special characters. >I've written in my sgml-file: > ><screen format='linespecific'> > ./configure --prefix=/user/blabla ></screen> > >And running openjade does a good job with html- or rtf-output. But with tex or >even pdf-output the "--" double dash is passed to the jadetex-inputfile still >as "--". Within TeX it's now converted to the endash character and printed out >in that form. Using pure LaTeX I'm using the verbatim-environment and the >problem has gone, but within DocBook I don't know how to do that. What I currently do is pass the .tex file through sed and change all >> to >{>} and << to <{<}. I imagine that if I were to change -- to -{-} as well, all would work. I am working on a fix in OpenJade, but cannot yet link OpenJade 1.4. > >Ciao, Georg Regards ------- Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com) Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours Author, Special Edition, Using Samba
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