Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:07:42 -0400 From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Docbook: programlisting and screen Message-ID: <20130930100742.bb97c7e5ed071c1c37c42194@embarqmail.com>
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I've noticed that trying to copy content from the rendered Handbook from a browser does not retain the line breaks in some places. This occurs for material that are contained within a <programlisting> or <screen> elements. As an example, try to copy and paste some content from the section 30.6.5.5. for "An Example Stateful Ruleset" into a text editor. (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-ipfw.html) The result is the entire copied content is a single line which would require a lot of tedious editing. I've tried different browsers with the same result. I finally ended using the xml source to do the copy. I seem to remember being able to do a copy but it was probably when sgml was used. Is there some way to make it easier to copy these sections? Thanks, Randy
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