discuss: Docbook questions
Subject:
Re: Docbook questions
From:
David Horton ####@####.####
Date:
19 Nov 2003 03:03:16 -0000
Message-Id: <3FBADDD3.5010003@megsinet.net>
Kwan Lowe wrote:
> Hello all:
> I'm still plugging away at my kernel guide:
> http://www.digitalhermit.com/~kwan/html/book1.html
>
> I have a couple questions about DocBook that I haven't been able to answer:
>
> 1) How do I define a subsection? The DocBook guide seems to indicate
> that sections can be nested, but I get errors whenever I try. Is there a
> \subsection equivalent that I'm missing?
>
You can use <sect1>, <sect2>, <sect3>, etc. for sections and
subsections. <sect1> is the top level and they are nested like this:
<sect1>
<sect2>
<sect3>
<sect4>
</sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
> 2) How can I avoid overfull boxes on ps/pdf pages? Is there a way to
> adjust kerning or pass TeX directly to the processor? The problem is
> that some code, formatted for 72 column screens, always overflows the
> right border.
I'm guessing this is probably happening with tags like <programlisting>
or <screen>. These are formatted similar to the HTML <pre> tag in that
whitespace *does* matter. The only way I know to fix it for these types
of tags is to either shorten the lines in your document or hack the
stylesheet to use a smaller font size.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kwan
>
Hope this helps,
Dave
