ignoring white-space
From: David Megginson <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 06:26:00 -0500
Russell Senior writes:
> I am experimenting with Jade 0.5 to format some SGML of mine. The
> SGML was marked up using PSGML in GNU Emacs and I have noticed a
> little problem. Default indentation in sgml-mode in Emacs results in
> the #PCDATA being nicely indented within its tags. This makes the
> SGML look great, but when this stuff gets run through the TeX or RTF
> backends the leading spaces from each line are retained in the
> output. This is not a problem when using the TeX backend since TeX
> eats the extra white-space, but RTF does not.
In this context the behaviour of the TeX is, unfortunately, a bug
rather than a feature. If you don't want whitespace to be
significant, try this on your root element:
(element DOC
(make simple-page-sequence
input-whitespace-treatment: 'collapse
(process-children)))
When you do need it to be significant, you can override the value
(element LISTING
(make paragraph
input-whitespace-treatment: 'preserve
lines: 'asis
(process-children)))
All the best,
David
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University of Ottawa [email protected]
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