[publican-list] Screen and Programlisting oddities in Publican 2.8

[Jeff Fearn]

Hi Norman,

On 11/07/2012 02:15 AM, Norman Dunbar wrote:
> I've scanned the bugzilla bugs list and not found this, I've also
> searched my email archive and not found it either.
>
> I'm running Publican 2.8 on KDE Mint 13 (Based on Ubuntu Precise
> Pangolin) which is my new laptop OS of choice.
>
> A document I have had no trouble with in the past is behaving rather
> strangely now in <screen> and <programlistings> which start with a
> non-alpha character.

Have you tested it with a character besides #?

> When rendered as pdf, the formatting is all over the place, however, if
> I stick a blank line or an alpha character in front, they render fine in
> the pdf. HTML output is unaffected - it renders fine.
>
> So, the following is broken:
>
> <programlisting>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> printf("Hello World");
> return 0;
> }
> </programlisting>
>
> It renders as the following in PDF:
>
>
> #include <stdio.h>int main(int argc, char **argv){
> <stdio.h>int main(int argc, char
> **argv)
> {
> printf("Hello
> World");
> return
> 0;
> printf("Hello World");
> return 0;}
>
>
>
> But this works fine:
>
> <programlisting>
> x
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> printf("Hello World");
> return 0;
> }
> </programlisting>
>
>
> Similarly, the following screen renders all over the place:
>
> <screen>
> ----- <-- top window
> --- <-- unlocked, but not top
> ------- <-- locked
> ----------- <-- bottom window, also locked
> </screen>
>
> Which renders as:
>
> -----
> <-- top window
> ---
> <-- unlocked, but not top -------
> <-- locked-----------
> <-- bottom window, also locked
> dow
> ---
> <-- unlocked, but not
> top -------
> <--
> locked-----------
> <-- bottom window, also
>
>
> By adding a blank line at the start, or a line starting with a
> non-punctuation, causes the rendering to be ok.
>
> The above is being rendered to pdf via fop. (Which I know you are not
> keen on!) However, I need indexes to render with page numbers as opposed
> to sections titles and in my PDFs that doesn't happen with HTMLtoPDF. :-(
>
>
> I did download Publican 3.0 source and tried to install it, but it's
> refusing to install correctly and the perl Build.PL fails.
>
> Anyway, enough waffle. Is this a known problem or should I log a bug?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
>


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