[FM Discuss] [FM Tech] FM in Safari Books

adam hyde adam at flossmanuals.net
Wed Mar 25 03:43:01 PDT 2009


delete and kill &nbsp

remove it from the planet

as for tables..(sigh)....well...shall we make a collab effort to dig
them all out of the command line manual? replace with images or
somehting?

shall we try and get the docbook done and done by the end of the week?

adam


On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 13:02 +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> adam hyde wrote:
> 
> > the syntax is:
> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/[manual]/_all?skin=basic
> 
> 
> Just one thing to add: the ?skin=basic bit also works for individual
> chapters, and this is perhaps easier for docbook conversion, because
> each page can become a <section/>. (example:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/CommandLineIntro/Piping?skin=basic)
> 
> For that, it would be useful to have a url for a simple TOC list, a bit
> like an easier to parse version of this:
> 
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/CommandLineIntro/_index?skin=basic
> 
> BTW, I had a bit more of a look, and it seems like most of the XSLT
> failures I got were caused by &nbsp and tables.  The tables cause
> endless recursion in the stylesheet, while the nbsp entities are unknown
>  outside of html.  Do we actually need them?  (At last count, the
> command line manual had 383  s, mostly to double space at the break
> between sentences; the farsi circumvention manual has 274, often for
> layout).
> 
> douglas
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