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Re: [help-texinfo] web site using texinfo->docbook->html
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Per Bothner |
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Re: [help-texinfo] web site using texinfo->docbook->html |
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Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:01:35 -0700 |
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Karl Berry wrote:
My only comment on the home page is that the spacing gets quite spacey
without linebreaking in url's. Personally I think ragged right is the
way to go on web pages, user's fonts and screens vary so widely.
I'm inclined to agree. And it's just a matter of removing a
'text-align: justify;' from the css style-sheet.
However, that doesn't solve the problem for the printed manual.
For that I think there has to be a mechanism for discretionary
line breaks. For example it may be reasonable to treat a '/'
in a URL as if it were '\discretionary{/}{/}{}' (if I remember
my TeX right). It might also be reasonable to have an explicit
command for a discretionary line-break.
For HTML one can use "zero width space". E.g. have makeinfo translate:
For a technical overview of Kawa, see these
@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/internals/index.html}.
into:
<p>For a technical overview of Kawa, see these
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/internals/index.html">
http://www.gnu.org/​software/​kawa/​internals/​index.html</a>.
That works pretty well, at least with Firefox.
Typo in the first line: "compling" them into Java bytecodes ...
Thanks! Noted (in my working tree).
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--Per Bothner
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