Another CSS suggestion: pre-wrap

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 28 18:44:56 UTC 2013


On 2013.07.28. 19:45, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> On 2013.07.28. 19:00, Warren Block wrote:
>> Long lines in screen and programlisting elements run off the right 
>> side of the screen with the current CSS.
>>
>> It would be great to have them wrap and include a visible a line wrap 
>> indicator, but that may not be possible, or may require Javascript.
>>
>> Better than nothing is to have them at least have forced wrapping 
>> based on screen width.  That can be done with changes in div.screen 
>> and div.programlisting:
>>
>> -    white-space: pre;
>> +    white-space: pre-wrap;
>>
>> This seems to work well, other than there being no visible marker 
>> where a line is wrapped due to screen width.
>>
>> Is there a better way to accomplish this? 
> This seems to work:
> http://iany.me/2012/02/css-line-wrap-indicator/
>
> The wrapping of programlisting content into span elements can be done 
> in XSLT. 
This seems to does the XSLT-part, although it may be done in a better 
way since it breaks some DocBook features that we don't use:
http://kovesdan.org/patches/xhtml-wrap.diff

Gabor


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