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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Forcing a Line Feed
[Martin Gautier, 2002-03-07:] > There are a number of reasons this might happen, not necessarily with > the <para> element (<programlisting> containing lines longer than the > width of my publishing media for example). In my example, if the > <para> was inside a <table> <entry>, there might not be enough room > in the cell to present the paragraph as expected - It would be > convenient to force a line break at a suitable (for presentation > purposes) location decided by me rather than my stylesheet. Yeah, sounds reasonable to me. Although I consider myself as something quite close to a keep-presentation-out-of-markup purist, I think <sbr> should be available in <programlisting> and all the stuff like <functionsynopsis> that usually ends up in <pre> environments in HTML (while, on the other hand, I'm still unsure about your <para> example). Best with some "avoid if possible" clause in TDG, though, because a stylesheet solution that states the _reason_ for the line break as a template rule is always better. But in some cases (f.expl. if you have _one_ such thing in a paper that must be ready yesterday) this is just overkill. - Should I write an RFE for that? > When I posed the question I expected a reply describing something I > missed along the lines of using an <sbr> or <beginpage> - both > elements designed for presentation rather than data description. I > guess there isn't such a thing :o( <beginpage> is not _for_ but _from_ presentation, i.e. it is used to keep information on pagebreaks in initial prints or so (see http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/beginpage.html). > Perhaps I need to study my stylesheets and possibly modify them to > build a solution for me - something I was hoping to avoid. > > Thanks for giving this some attention... > > Mart Anders
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