From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tammy Fox <tfox@redhat.com>
To: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Cc: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
Subject: Re: blank line in lists
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:44:00 -0000
Message-id: <20011031174416.B6893@redhat.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/msg00012.html

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 06:38:00AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> was heard to say:
> | Is he saying in a mixed content environment (I presume lists are examples of
> | that) that no filling or justification of paragraphs is done?  That is what
> | would happen if white space were preserved.  Of course, "preserved" is a
> | stronger statement than "significant" so I guess what I really need is
> | a definition of significant.
> | 
> | Would Norm or some other expert here be willing to expand on the remark?
> 
> "Significant" in this case means "passed through to the application". So,
> if you say:
> 
> <para>
> Some text</para>
> 
> What the application sees is "Begin a paragraph" "Newline" "Some text"
> "End a paragraph".
> 
> So if the application thinks newlines are significant in paragraphs,
> you get an extra newline.
> 
> What's really odd though is that I can't reproduce this problem
> without the intervening indexterm. And I expect the intervening
> indexterm is just a backend bug.
> 
> (What are you generating? TeX, RTF, HTML, ... ?)
> 

I am trying to generate PS and PDF when I see this problem. 
The HTML output looks fine because it ignores whitespace.

Tammy