[Firebird-docs] Spaces (was: PDF rendering)

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi Darcy,

>> Maybe the space got eaten because Ventura thinks there should't be
>> a space before a colon? This has to be fixed, because there are
>> also other situations where a space precedes a colon, e.g. in a C
>> code fragment or in a ratio.

> I think maintaining 'spaces' is going to be the hardest part of
> these doc's. Ventura supports formatting without problems i.e. cut
> and paste a text doc into Ventura and it will keep the tabs and
> spacing perfectly.  Import XML and it doesn't see the spaces because
> it see the doc as a XML file and removes all spacing, then applies
> formating to the tags.

I don't understand this. Sure it can remove all spacing *between*
elements, i.e. it can convert

  <section>
    <para>
      <emphasis>
         Don't forget this!
      </emphasis>
    </para>
  </section>

to:

  <section><para><emphasis>Don't forget this!</emphasis></para></section>

But here we're talking about spacing between words etc. *inside*
elements. I suppose Ventura doesn't convert <para>This is some
text</para> to <para>Thisissometext</para>, and neither should it
convert <para>a = x == y ? b : c</para> to <para>a=x==y?b:c</para> or
<para>Hi :-)</para> to <para>Hi:-)</para>


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog