Re: debiandoc-sgml vs. docbook

[Ardo van Rangelrooij <avrangel@flevonet.nl>]

> > What did you not like about the debiandoc Lout PostScript output ?
> 
> I can't find an old lout printout, I don't remember so well. I know it had
> all kinds of wrong whitespace - line breaks in the SGML made two spaces in
> the output, spaces before periods, things like that. (don't know if this
> was Lout or DebianDoc making the mistake.) 

I noticed that this only happens in normalized SGML sources, so it has 
something to do with all the extra indentation in such sources.  I'm
already working on a solution to remove the extraneous whitespaces,
since not only Lout suffers from this: LaTeX can also be sensitive to
extra whitespaces.

Thanks,

Ardo
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