CFR: documentation rendered in PDF with FOP

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Jul 23 23:28:22 UTC 2013


On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> On 2013.07.23. 23:11, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> There is something weird about bulleted lists and sub-lists, starting on 
>> page 35 of the PDF Handbook (page 7-9 of the content).  Some entries in the 
>> first list are blank, the ones in the second list have an extra linefeed 
>> after the bullet. 
> It is a known issue and is actually the result of misplaced indexterms, not a 
> bug in the rendering. I've already fixed some of them in the English docs but 
> translations still has to be fixed and there may be slightly different cases, 
> which I haven't caught yet. We should document in fdp-primer that indexterms 
> should be put right inside of the text after the referred word. Not between 
> paragraphs, not into <itemizedlist>, not into <listitem> but right inside 
> <para> after the referred word without leaving a single a space. If they are 
> not in <para>, it can cuase such problems. And if you put a space before the 
> indexterm, there may be a page break and you get a wrong page number in the 
> index. But the probability of this latter is very low, the former thing is 
> more important.

Presently, indexes and indeterms are not even mentioned in the FDPP. 
I'll start a list of things to add after the doc slush.  If you or 
anyone else have found things which are not documented well or at all in 
the FDPP, please let me know or enter a PR.


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