[Firebird-docs] Things to improve

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

Hi all,

Quoting from my "Major improvements in PDF" message:

> Things still to be improved/solved:
>
> - Internal links to elements at chapter/article level or
>   above don't work.

This is solved in the new version of the DocBook stylesheets.

> - Section headers can still wind up at the bottom of a page,
>   with the section text starting at the next.
> - Widows/orphans.

These two are due to Apache FOP not having fully implemented the
"keep-with-next" attribute. So we'll have to live with those until
it's implemented, or until we find a better free FO processor - which
is not likely - or a PDF postprocessor that can fix it.

The new stylesheets also fix a problem I mentioned in the Docwriting
Howto: non-monospaced <literallayout> was badly rendered (as fully
justified lines, or worse).

I'm planning to commit the new stylesheets to CVS in a couple of
days. First I'm going to try them out some more. They do introduce
some minor new inconveniences but "nothing a couple of whiskey-and-
sodas couldn't fix".


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog