Month: June 2009

  • <nudge>, <nudge>, <wink>, <wink>

    FOP can get confused and do stupid things. Giving it a nudge in the right direction fixes it. For example, when a table is going to fill the page right up from where it starts to the end of the region available for it, it does ok. But add a footnote onto that table, and…

  • Dealing with a clogged link

    A friend asked me a question that reminded me of some great resources I want to mention here (in case I ever need to find them again…) They are: How to Accelerate Your Internet Wireless Networking in the Developing World Wireless U In my response to my friend, I also touched on something interesting I…

  • Disabling hyphenation in DocBook

    When you are using the chain “DocBook -> FO -> PDF”, it is the FO processor that decides on the hyphenation of your words. This is because it knows the lengths of the lines it is making. In FOP, hyphenation can only be turned on and off at the level of <fo:blocks>. For some dumb…

  • Printing a Blog

    I got interested in applying my new XSLT wizardry to the task of printing an entire blog. Like making every post into a big PDF and sending it off to a print-on-demand service. Digital backups = bad. Paper backups = good. I thought it would be easy, just do “WordPress export”, then write the XSLT…

  • Just Married

    I’ve been away from the web for a while because I was in Olivone, Ticino, Switzerland getting married! Thanks to friends and family who came from so far away to witness such a special day. And thanks also to our wonderful vendors, who made the day go so well. If you are thinking of putting…