Re: [docbook-apps] how put narrow non-breaking spaces before punctuation marks

[Radu Coravu <radu_coravu@sync.ro>]

Hi Patricia,

About this remark:

> I did not find the intermediary .fo file (I get directly the pdf) as you suggested

You can duplicate and edit the original Docbook to PDF transformation 
scenario and in the "FO Processor" tab uncheck the "Perform FO 
Processing" checkbox. Then in the "Output" tab set the output file name 
to have the ".fo" extension and choose to open it in the editor, instead 
of opening it in the browser.

> May I insert a special character in the template code instead of the html entity (in order to be more compatible with other editors)?

The " " is not a HTML entity, it is a character entity which should 
be recognized by any XML-compliant parser. So no worries about 
compatibility with using this approach.

But yes, you can also input the Unicode version of the character 
directly in a custom "Code Template" value text area.
How to do this? You can open the Oxygen Character Map for example, find 
the character, press "Copy" to copy directly its unicode value, close 
the dialog and then paste the character in the code template value field.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com


On 11/11/2011 1:29 PM, D-BookeR wrote:
> Thank all for your help ! I know better understand what is happening.
>
> @Bob: I used the oXygen included FOP and tried with the free XEP.
>   I did not find the intermediary .fo file (I get directly the pdf) as
> you suggested, but took a peek in the spaces.xsl and did not see any
> mention about non-breaking spaces.
> Anyway I guess the *narrow* non-breaking space seems to be hardly used,
> since it is actually missing from most of fonts. I'll be replace it by
> the usual non-breaking space, and will try to adjust them afterwards
> with the xsl.
>
> @Radu: Thanks for the tip. May I insert a special character in the
> template code instead of the html entity (in order to be more compatible
> with other editors)?
>
> Best, Patricia
>
>
> 2011/11/11 Radu Coravu <radu_coravu@sync.ro <mailto:radu_coravu@sync.ro>>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Related to the message as how special entity characters can be more
>     easily inserted with Oxygen, the answer is either the "Character
>     Map" which can be opened from the main Edit menu or defining small
>     code templates for the most used character entities:
>
>         http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/__ug-editor/index.html?q=/doc/__ug-editor/topics/preferences-__editor-code-templates.html
>         <http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/index.html?q=/doc/ug-editor/topics/preferences-editor-code-templates.html>
>
>
>     Regards,
>     Radu
>
>     Radu Coravu
>     <oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>     http://www.oxygenxml.com
>
>
>     On 11/10/2011 6:30 PM, Camille Bégnis wrote:
>
>         Hello,
>
>         I don't know if oXygen provides a shortcut, but in DocBook 5 you
>         have to
>         insert the unicode character for non breaking space, that
>         is&#160; in
>
>         the XML code.
>
>         HTH,
>
>         Camille.
>
>         On 10/11/2011 16:25, D-BookeR wrote:
>
>             Hi,
>
>             I am using docbook 5 for publication in French, so I need to
>             place the
>             usual narrow non-breaking space before strong punctuation
>             like colon,
>             semi colon, exclamation and question marks.
>             How to proceed ?
>             Should I introduce them from the start, in the docbook
>             manuscript ?
>             Then how?
>             Or can we do it automatically with the xslt ? Is there any
>             parameter
>             for that ?
>
>             [I am editing with Oxygen]
>
>             Thanks for your help,
>             Patricia
>
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