Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Thomas Reitelbach wrote: > > > >> But it would have been wise to fix this before the release. I'm of course >> not >> one of those people to decide such things. But for the last releases i >> believe that someone (who?) resolved rendering issues like this with the >> book. >> > > I've made that last couple of releases. In this case, I decided to release > without the pdf for now because further delay would make too many packages > out > of date. > > We need to discuss a couple of issues. > > 1. How do we handle the bootscripts and udev config files' excessive line > length? We can go in and adjust the bootscripts' line lengths to have a max > of > 72 characters, but the udev config does not allow line breaks. > > 2. How do we break up long <screen></screen> sections so the rendering goes > across multiple pages? > > One solution would be to strip the bootscripts and udev files completely from > the book (at least for the pdf rendering) as was done before 6.4. The still > leaves the problem of properly rendering the long table in Man-DB. I suppose > we > could double it up to four columns. > Forgive the obvious, but I'm thinking a smaller font for these parts. I don't see any problem with having smaller text in these sections of the book as they are tables and appendixes, not necessarily required reading. I don't have any clue how to go about doing this, but it seems to me that this would be the best option.
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