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Subject: Re: Docbook questions
From: Martin WHEELER ####@####.####
Date: 19 Nov 2003 12:49:56 -0000
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, David Horton wrote:

> 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.

Could someone please do this for the 'standard' ldp stylesheets so that
A4 (narrower than American Letter) pages can accommodate 72-character
lines at the second level of sub-section nesting?

Or if this makes for an impossibly small font, drop down to a 64-char
line, and advise authors accordingly?
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