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[docbook-apps] term in <variablelist> is rendered incorrectly in PDF
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- To: docbook apps list <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:25:20 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: [docbook-apps] term in <variablelist> is rendered incorrectly in PDF
(my, but it's been a busy docbook morning).
before the 1.62 stylesheets for FO, i reported having a problem
with variablelist terms being broken over a page. since upgrading
to 1.62, *that* problem has gone away, but a new one has arisen.
it seems to have something to do with hyphenation. if i create
a variablelist term that has no obvious hyphenation, like "XXXXXX",
then the PDF output looks like
XXXXX whatever
X
in other words, the processing seems to simply break the term near
the end and continue on the next line. if i try an even longer
garbage term like "XXXXXXXXXX", i get
XXXXXXXX whatever
XX
if i try something for which hyphenation is at least feasible,
like "abcdefghijklmno", i get
abcde- whatever
fghijklmno
which seems reasonable (given a very flexible definition of
"reasonable" :-).
so the problem *seems* related to hyphenation, or the lack of
ability to do so.
thoughts? can anyone else reproduce this? i'm pretty sure
i haven't added any customization related to variablelists
anywhere.
rday
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