Re: [docbook-apps] whitespace handling in manpages stylesheet

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Tim Waugh <>
Date
2003-11-06T18:39:26+00:00
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Re: [docbook-apps] whitespace handling in manpages stylesheet
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:29:28PM +0000, Brian McGurk wrote:

> I found a similar problem with listitems in an itemizedlist context
> and was able to fix it (for this particular case) by using
> normalize_space. That sort of works for the functionsynopis too.
> The templates I used are:
[...]
> Does this seem correct, or is it likely to have unfortunate
> side-effects?

Looks correct to me.  I've checked this in.

> The function prototype looks almost right but there are still some
> extra spaces left hanging around. I think because the normalise_space
> doesn't act on the <function>, which is a child of the <funcdef>. I'm
> now wondering how to get at the content of the function element in the
> function template. I tried:
[...]
> But rcontent doesn't seem to contain anything as a result, since the
> function disappears from the output.

Could you post a snippet of DocBook that shows the problem up?

Thanks,
Tim.
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