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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] fop problems
Harald Joerg <haj@oook.m.uunet.de> writes: > The whole bunch of errors produced by fop is something you can get > accustomed to. I found most of them don't really hurt. The problem is the inexistant output, so one or more of them are evidently problematic:-) > In my PDF files, I've found all of those you have quoted, and I > don't bother since apparently the stylesheets contain enough > workarounds to make fop create acceptable results. > > [INFO] area contents overflows area in line > This, however, is a hint.... (see below) > > The resulting PDF file doesn't seem to include parts of my text, bits > > of XML such as: > > <varlistentry> > > <term> > > <cmdsynopsis> > > <arg>BeforeScript</arg> > > <arg><replaceable>script</replaceable></arg> > > </cmdsynopsis> > > </term> > > <listitem> > > <para> > > [... snipped ...] > > Where the cmdsynopsis is more or less not there or 'messed up' > > (see the PDF). > A variablelist in docbook takes a 'termlength' attribute, and if you > are using fop, it is advisable to supply a "good" value here. I > guess that the [INFO] above tries to tell you that fop couldn't fit > your term into its place. IIRC this is a "known" fop issue. Hrm... what would a 'good' value be? It seems odd to have something like this - a presentation detail - be present in DocBook itself. Thankyou, -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
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