public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: David Blewett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:09:20 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>

Alvaro Herrera a ecrit le 22/12/2006 17:54:
> Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> 
>> The last PDF available on the website has some bad issues. Just take a
>> look at table 8-13 (page 805), table 8-18 (page 113). One more time, I
>> don't say you can't fix this in SGML (and I think we already talk of
>> this some time ago). But *I* won't do it. And I think some people are
>> willing to work on this but they also want to have XML documentation.
> 
> I checked the PDF available on
> http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/pdf/8.2/postgresql-8.2-A4.pdf
> and it does have the issues Guillaume mentions: table 8-13 (on page 105)
> is certainly mangled (columns too wide), and table 8-18 is mangled too
> (a row's content is too wide for the columns, so the text on one column
> overlaps the text on the next).  This problem can also be seen on other
> tables, for example 9-5 and 9-6.
> 

There's a way to fix this : adding colspec's tags for each column which 
need a specific col width.

For example :
   <colspec colnum="1" colwidth="1.3*"/>

> I printed one page and it looks just as silly, so it's not just a
> display problem.
> 
> Also, the US version is lacking the index -- I suppose it was built
> without the complete index.sgml file.
> 

Regards.


-- 
Guillaume.

view thread (122+ messages)

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: Switching to XML
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox