[publican-list] clean_ids strips carriage returns inside <screen> tags

[Jeff Fearn]

On 07/12/2013 02:23 PM, David O'Brien wrote:
> On 07/12/2013 09:11 AM, Jeff Fearn wrote:
>> On 07/12/2013 01:11 AM, David O'Brien wrote:
>>> Is this by design or accident?
>>>
>>> e.g., if you use <screen> tags to display a multi-line command, and
>>> then use a backslash and CR to indicate that the command continues on
>>> the next line, clean_ids strips out the CR.
>>>
>>> This seems at odds with what DocBook expects of <screen>:
>>>
>>> 'This element is displayed “verbatim”; whitespace and linebreaks
>>> within this element are significant. Screens are usually displayed in
>>> a fixed width font.'
>>>
>>> Same thing happens in <programlisting>, but that's not really the
>>> right tag to be using anyway.
>>>
>>> Using version=3.0.0 on F16 (yes, I'm a bit behind).
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>
>> At a guess I'd say the back slash isn't being handled properly and
>> having it at the end of the line is tricking the code. Try adding a
>> space after the backslash, if that works then this is definitely the
>> problem.
>>
>> Cheers, Jeff.
>>
> Tried that, and this time on version=3.1.5 on CSB. Same result :(

You might have to supply some XML instead of making us guess.

Cheers, Jeff.

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