From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Norman Walsh To: "Alan W. Irwin" Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: blank line in lists Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 03:38:00 -0000 Message-id: <877ktcjazr.fsf@nwalsh.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/msg00009.html / "Alan W. Irwin" 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: Some text 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, ... ?) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh | "Abstraction, abstraction and http://nwalsh.com/ | abstraction." This is the answer to the | question, "What are the three most | important words in programming?"--Paul | Hudak