On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Bob Stayton wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:37:29PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > before all this starts to blur together, the observations over
> > the past day or so related to generating PDF via xsltproc and FOP:
> >
> > [stuff deleted]
> >
> > <variablelist>:
> >
> > also, at least for me, trying to display two terms /bin and /usr/bin
> > for the same <varlistentry> produced the PDF output:
> >
> > /bin,/
> > usr/bin
> >
> > i have no idea where the intermediate space went.
>
> I looked at this some more. The space is not getting
> lost, it is appearing in the output if you look
> closely. But FOP is choosing to break the line
> that is too long at a weird point. It isn't
> hyphenating, because there is no hyphen.
> It is just breaking the line at an arbitrary point
> to get it to fit in the space that is too narrow.
> XEP manages to break the line on the space, BTW.
so i should register this as a bug with the FOP folks,
then? i can do that, before i go back to finding more
bugs. :-)
rday
