RE: [docbook-apps] Generated epub to mobi - lists are incorrectly displayed

[Jon Rosen <jon.rosen@ucirrus.com>]

To be clear though, this is a problem with the mobi browser rendering of list items that are wrapped in <p> tags, not docbook.  

The rendering of a <p> inside an <li> should NOT put the dot on a separate line.  I tested this in Firefox and IE.  The <p> tag adds some spacing above and below the line, but the dot remains on the first paragraph line.  

Jon Rosen

-----Original Message-----
From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka@kosek.cz] 
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 3:28 PM
To: Lars Vogel
Cc: DocBook Apps
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Generated epub to mobi - lists are incorrectly displayed

On 28.10.2011 16:38, Lars Vogel wrote:

> I'm generating epubs via Docbook and the epub XSLT stylesheets. If I 
> convert them to mobipocket for the Kindle lists are incorrectly displayed.
> 
> <ul><li> Hello </li> </ul>
> 
> The dot is in one line and the text in another. Screenshot attached.
> 
> I tried kindlegen and Calibre.
> 
> Anyone know how to solve this?

The problem is that DocBook stylesheets wrap content of listitem in <p> (because originaly it was <para> in DocBook). The easiest way how to fix this is to postprocess generated XHTML files and remove <p>s inside <li>. I'm using attached XSLT transformation (inspired by code provided by Adam Witwer originaly).

				Jirka

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