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

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@googlemail.com>]

Hi Jon,

I think the browsers may have accepted that people do this and try to give a good display. I think Kindle acctually shows it correct. The instruction <li> <p> Text </p> </li> basically says: first make a list item then a paragraph and then the text. 

Best regards, Lars

2011/10/29 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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