LRF output

[Excalibur]

Well, I tried it in Firefox and it renders with two spaces. IE is wrong when it comes to rendering HTML properly. Anyway, I tried it in IE and it does incorrectly render with 1 space.

So, which do you go with? Standards compliant Firefox or non-standards compliant IE. Either way, you could just as easily remove any whitespace at the beginning of a non-pre tag and that will fix said issue. If the tag has CSS that says it is white-space:pre; then you can check that before removing the space at the beginning of a tag and determine if you need to remove it or not.

hmm I forgot what started this conversation anyway... heh

[kovidgoyal]

firefox and konqueror in linux render it with one space. I suspect firefox on windows is broken. Certainly redering it with one space is logically correct. No you cant blindly remove leading space, consider the following situation

<p>One,<span> two

Just need to remember the last string added, shouldn't be too hard to do.

[Excalibur]

Well, it "looks" like one space but it is 2 spaces in source... I guess it does collapse it in the browser window then...

True enough.

[kovidgoyal]

Released v0.3.98 with support for white-space. This required a complete rewrite of html2lrf's whitespace handling mechanism, so keep an eye out for whitespace related problems. The new code is actually simpler than the old, but not tested nearly as much ;-)

Also fixed the lit2lrf, any2lrf bugs on windows.

[Pode]

kovidgoyal>here's an attached .lrf, with an example of line-centered text.
It's an article from the New York Time, taken as an html page, and converted with html2lrf.
If you go on the last page, you can see a list of items, centered.
If I understood well, what you want (and others on the forum too) is centered text on the reader.

Centered text like that pops in nearly all my lrf files, because a lot, if not all of them comes from saved web pages, poorly stripped of their screen-waste content. So I suppose that when I get centered text, it's because, even if I cut "with an axe" through the html code, css definition still (badly) applies to what's left...

[kovidgoyal]

If you go on the last page, you can see a list of items, centered.

That's horizontal centering. The O.P. was asking about vertical centering.

[irishjew]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

the <a href> tag is inside a <pre> tag. Delete the <pre> tag and you'll be fine.

Thanks a bunch, Kovid. I did that, and it fixed the links, but unfortunately now all my line breaks and tabs are gone. Do you know what might cause that?

[kovidgoyal]

upgrade to the latest version and put the <pre> tags back and you should have both links and line breaks.

[irishjew]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

upgrade to the latest version and put the <pre> tags back and you should have both links and line breaks.

I upgraded, and the links are there, but they don't point to the right places. Instead, they all go back to the beginning of the file.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by irishjew

I upgraded, and the links are there, but they don't point to the right places. Instead, they all go back to the beginning of the file.

Hmm that shouldn't be happening please send me the file.

[Pode]

kovidgoyal>OK, it seems I misunderstood. Excuse-me for any false hope.

[JSWolf]

So any idea when the next version is going to be released? The one that fixes html2lrf.

[kovidgoyal]

Later today.

[angelyne]

I'm having a small problem.

I have a sentence that is coded like this : <p class="first">G<em>ram called at five in the morning. She never remembered</em> which looks like this

Gram called at five in the morning. She never remembered the time difference.

I don't like the fact that the first letter is not italics. It looks funny. I also wanted the first letter to be a drop cap. So I changed the code to this :

<p class="first"><em><big class='libprs500_dropcaps'>G</big>ram called at five in the morning. She never remembered</em>

The result looks fine in a browser, but doesn't convert well. The result is the first letter is in italics and drop-capped, but the rest of the sentence looses the italics.

It looks like this

G ram called at five in the morning.

[kovidgoyal]

I tried that. For me, the the entire statement is italicized, as would be expected from the HTML

<em><big class='libprs500_dropcaps'>G</big>ram called at five in the morning. She never remembered</em>