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author | Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org> | 2014-04-26 15:11:58 +0200 |
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committer | Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org> | 2014-04-26 15:11:58 +0200 |
commit | 140d836e9cd54fb67b969fd82ef7ed19ba574d40 (patch) | |
tree | 0df3e32ee39603d43f9b90fd2f2e1f7cce4249d4 /src/engine/SCons/Tool/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.76.1/params/man.th.title.max.length.xml | |
parent | cb3425abe0bc2d05caf401ca24b82a25a81f009d (diff) |
Imported Upstream version 2.3.1upstream/2.3.1
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diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Tool/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.76.1/params/man.th.title.max.length.xml b/src/engine/SCons/Tool/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.76.1/params/man.th.title.max.length.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7fdf0bf --- /dev/null +++ b/src/engine/SCons/Tool/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.76.1/params/man.th.title.max.length.xml @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" + xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" + xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" + xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment" + xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" + version="5.0" xml:id="man.th.title.max.length"> +<refmeta> +<refentrytitle>man.th.title.max.length</refentrytitle> +<refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">integer</refmiscinfo> +</refmeta> +<refnamediv> +<refname>man.th.title.max.length</refname> +<refpurpose>Maximum length of title in header/footer</refpurpose> +</refnamediv> + +<refsynopsisdiv> +<src:fragment xml:id="man.th.title.max.length.frag"> +<xsl:param name="man.th.title.max.length">20</xsl:param> +</src:fragment> +</refsynopsisdiv> + +<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> + +<para>Specifies the maximum permitted length of the title part of the +man-page <literal>.TH</literal> title line header/footer. If the title +exceeds the maxiumum specified, it is truncated down to the maximum +permitted length.</para> + +<refsection><info><title>Details</title></info> + + +<para>Every man page generated using the DocBook stylesheets has a +title line, specified using the <literal>TH</literal> roff +macro. Within that title line, there is always, at a minimum, a title, +followed by a section value (representing a man "section" -- usually +just a number).</para> + +<para>The title and section are displayed, together, in the visible +header of each page. Where in the header they are displayed depends on +OS the man page is viewed on, and on what version of nroff/groff/man +is used for viewing the page. But, at a minimum and across all +systems, the title and section are displayed on the right-hand column +of the header. On many systems -- those with a modern groff, including +Linux systems -- they are displayed twice: both in the left and right +columns of the header.</para> + +<para>So if the length of the title exceeds a certain percentage of +the column width in which the page is viewed, the left and right +titles can end up overlapping, making them unreadable, or breaking to +another line, which doesn't look particularly good.</para> + +<para>So the stylesheets provide the +<parameter>man.th.title.max.length</parameter> parameter as a means +for truncating titles that exceed the maximum length that can be +viewing properly in a page header.</para> + +<para>The default value is reasonable but somewhat arbitrary. If you +have pages with long titles, you may want to experiment with changing +the value in order to achieve the correct aesthetic results.</para> +</refsection> + +</refsection> +</refentry> |