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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