Another CSS suggestion: pre-wrap

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Jul 28 22:21:22 UTC 2013


On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> On 2013.07.29. 0:09, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2013.07.28. 21:37, Warren Block wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Line numbering is nice sometimes, although sometimes it's easy to confuse 
>>>> with content.  Syntax highlighting could be useful in places like the 
>>>> Architecture Handbook, but as you say, we don't have it now.
>>>> 
>>>> Would you agree that using this line wrap now would not prevent switching 
>>>> to other methods in the future?
>> 
>>> I believe it is possible to make them work together. But using these 
>>> extensions requires using Saxon as the XSLT processor, which is Java-based 
>>> and slower than xsltproc.  Even if we end up using Java for PDF rendering, 
>>> it would be better to keep the XHTML build fast and Java-free so that 
>>> committers can easily test their work.
>> 
>> Do you mean Java is needed to do the linewrap on XHTML, or that it would be 
>> needed to do line numbers and syntax highlighting?

> For the latter two only.

Excellent!  What do you think about adding it after the doc slush ends 
in a week or so?


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