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List:       fop-user
Subject:    RE: Newbie needs help controlling line wrap in PDF
From:       "Dan Carwin" <dcarwin () covalent ! net>
Date:       2006-10-18 23:16:13
Message-ID: B2CBEAA41E707D4888BC0483D893323C0223B5DC () x ! win ! covalent ! net
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Thanks Jay,

Here is an example of the kind of text block that falls off the page:

...
<section>
        <title>DB libraries</title>

        <para>Please note that compat-db package is required on Linux
platform
        as the dynamically linked libdb.so.3 library depends on the
compat-db
        libraries. Some of Linux systems, for example RedHat AS4, do not
have
        this package installed by default.</para>

        <para>In the absence of this package, the following error occurs
        during server startup:</para>

        <para><programlisting>httpsd.prefork: error while loading shared
libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open shared 
  object file: No such file or directory
  Server start FAILED</programlisting></para>

        <para>There is a workaround for this error. See: <ulink
 
url="https://www.covalent.net/kb/index.html?kba_id=414&amp;drop_product=
&amp;drop_category=&amp;drop_subproduct=&amp;txt_search=414&amp;drop_sea
rchby=article+id">Covalent
        Knowledge Base Article ID: 414</ulink> The workaround is to
create a
        symbolic link to an existing DB library.</para>
      </section>
    </section>


It is the first line of the <programlisting> element which will not
wrap, as well as the url portion of the <ulink> element.
Note that the <programlisting> element does have spaces.

I'll read up on XSLT to see if I can write a transform.

Thanks,
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Bryant [mailto:jay@bryantcs.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:07 PM
To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help controlling line wrap in PDF


Hi, Dan,

You didn't include an example of an offending text block, but I'm
guessing 
that you have really long strings that don't contain spaces.

One way to deal with that is to add another processing step in your
chain of 
processing steps before you get to FOP.

In XSLT, you can write a transform that identifies strings with more
than 
some number of characters and then chops those strings (perhaps into 
separate blocks, if you like). You can do similar things with other 
languages, of course.

HTH

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Carwin" <dcarwin@covalent.net>
To: <fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:44 PM
Subject: Newbie needs help controlling line wrap in PDF


Hello,

I am a new user of FOP and new to XML docs in general.  I did do some
searching before this email on the archives looking for "running off
page" and "off page" and I saw a thread on images, but not on text
elements.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

Issue:
======
"Program Listing" elements run off the right margin of the page when
converting to PDF
"URL" attributes of a ULINK also run off the page

Is there a way to control this? Or is there a better element type to use
to represent command line commands?

Environment notes:
==================
I use XML Mind Editor 3.2 to edit the docs.

Here is an example of the command I am using to convert into PDF (direct
from XML).

"C:\"Program Files"\apacheFOP\fop-0.92beta\fop.bat -xml
E:\data\covalentDocumentation\new-xml-docs\ERS-3.1.0-Release_Notes.xml
-xsl E:\data\docbook\docbook-xsl-1.70.1\fo\docbook.xsl -pdf
E:\data\covalentDocumentation\new-xml-docs\ERS-3.1.0-Release_Notes.xml.p
df"


Thanks,
Dan Carwin

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