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Re: Jade/RTF problem?



"Neil L. Roeth" <neil@occamsrazor.net> writes:

> I have a question about DSSSL stylesheets.  It is the first one I've written,
> so there may be something obvious I am missing.
> 
> I created a document using psgml mode of Emacs, which nicely indents the
> character data in an element, like so:
> 
> <para>
>   My text here, wrapped
>   around to multiple
>   lines
> </para>
> 
> I produce TeX and RTF from it, using "jade -t tex" or "jade -t rtf".  The
> problem is that while the DVI produced by jadetex from the TeX looks fine, the
> RTF output has extra spaces, corresponding to the spaces at the beginning of
> the indented lines above.  The above example would look like this:
> 
>      My text here, wrapped   around to multiple   lines.
> 
> Note the extra spaces     ^^^                  ^^^
> 
> The extra spaces are in the TeX output also, so I guess the difference has to
> do with how TeX and jade treat spaces.  How are the rules defined for jade?
> It obviously has some default rules for handling white space, since it wraps
> lines, meaning it handles the newline.  Is this something I can set in my
> stylesheet for the "para" element so that it eats all white space and replaces
> it with a single space?

Neil, did anyone reply?

This is probably a good question to take to the DSSSL or jade/openjade
lists.  Also, that brings up, try it in openjade, which is (sorta)
being maintained, unlike jade.

-- 
...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>



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