Re: draft notice text

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On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 12:28, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 06:55, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 
> > I agree with the approach, and with the usage. One question: for Very
> > Long URLs, should the actual URL appear somewhere like a <footnote>?
> > Normally we use the URL as the content body as well as the "url"
> > parameter for <ulink>.
> 
> Ideally, you wouldn't have to do this.  When rendered to HTML, a
> <ulink/> should make a hyperlink, and when rendered to print (PDF), a
> footnote should be generated instead (and it should wrap properly, too.)
> 
> However, the PDF part has been broken in SGML in our internal toolchain
> for some time, which is what prompted the practice in the Doc Guide.
> 

What part is broken? The footnote for URLs? I turned that off on purpose
in our stylesheets for our internal SGML because we decided that we
preferred the URL inline or inside screen tags if it might line wrap.

Tammy

> Is this still broken in the FDP toolchain?  I don't have a working PDF
> build at the moment (again) to test ...
> 
> - Karsten
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