Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem with PSGML auto formatting

["John R. Sheets" <dusk at ravendusk dot org>]

On Friday, June 23, 2000, "John R. Sheets" <dusk@ravendusk.org> wrote:
> I've been using PSGML + Emacs to mark up existing documentation for the
> Wine project, and so far it's working wonderfully.  The only problem
> I've run into, however, is extremely vexing.  It happens whenever I try
> to format the contents of an element with C-c C-q, if that element
> contains an element with an attribute.  Thus, rather than getting
> this:
> 
>  <para>
>    Before you begin, open the <filename 
>    class="directory">foodir</filename> in a file browser...
>  </para>
> 
> PSGML breaks the attribute at the first space and moves it down a line;
> it also fails to format the rest of that element:
> 
>  <para>
>    Before you begin, open the <filename
>                                         class="directory">foodir</filename>
> in a file browser...
>  </para>

FYI, I finally figured it out (accidentally).  It has nothing to do with
attributes.  If a word (or element) is too long to wrap properly, PSGML
simply bails out without finishing the formatting.  You can fix this by
increasing the fill column with set-fill-column until it wraps better.
In the example above, you'd have to set the fill column to include
"</filename>".

Kind of an ugly workaround, but it's nice to know what's causing it.
(c:

John

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