Another CSS suggestion: pre-wrap

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 28 22:16:08 UTC 2013


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.

Gabor


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