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

Many thanks ! It was very helpful !
-patricia

2011/11/11 Radu Coravu <>

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 "&#160;" 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 < <mailto:>>

    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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