Re: CSS documentation and non-breakable hyphens

[Stefan Sauer <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

On 05/31/2017 10:37 AM, Arnaud wrote:
> > Wondering if there's a better way to do that.
> Well, it seems that the most common answer for that problem is to use a
> <span> element with the 'white-space' property set to 'nowrap'.
>
> HTML:    <span class="nobr">i-dont-want-to-be-broken</span>
> CSS:    span.nobr { white-space: nowrap; }
>
> And this is now how it translates in our GTK XML documentation. We can
> use the <phrase> element along with the 'role' attribute. Example with a
> table entry from the file css-properties.xml.
>
>     <entry><phrase
> role="nobr">-gtk-outline-bottom-left-radius</phrase></entry>
Please file a bug for gtk-doc, we'll have to see how easilly we can
apply this to the doc generation (and how much the extra tags will make
things slower :))

Stefan

> In the generated HTML, it translates to:
>
>     <td><span class="nobr">-gtk-outline-bottom-left-radius</span></td>
>
> Once this is done, the only thing left to do is to tweak the
> 'style.css', and add this snippet.
>
>     span.nobr { white-space: nowrap; }
>
> It does the job, and would allow to remove every non-breaking spaces and
> hyphens. The only detail here is that it requires to modify 'style.css'
> file, which belongs to gtk-doc-tools, and is not shipped with gtk.
>
> Anyway, there may be better solution, I'm not a web developer, you
> shouldn't trust me too much on that ;)
>
> Cheers.
>
> ----
>
> References:
>
> - DOCBOOK: Non breaking spaces or "ties"?
> <https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200103/msg00118.html>
>
> - Using CSS to style HTML
> <http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/UsingCSS.html#CustomClass>
>
> - White-space property
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/white-space?v=control>
>
> On 05/30/2017 05:51 PM, Arnaud wrote:
> > Hey there,
> >
> > While browsing the GTK+ CSS documentation lately in my web browser, I
> > noticed a weird phenomenon. If you do a research on 'font-' (for
> > example), most of the 'font-' strings are left out of the search results.
> >
> > You can try it easily. Go on this page, and do a research on 'font-'.
> > https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/chap-css-properties.html
> >
> > The truth behind is that the page uses 'non-breaking hyphens' (U+2011)
> > instead of 'normal hyphens'. I suppose it works great for formatting,
> > but it kind of breaks the search function in the browser.
> >
> > If you're curious about that on your console, browse the GTK+ source
> > code. And do something like that.
> >
> >     cd docs/references
> >     grep -rl $'\xe2\x80\x91' .
> >     grep $'\xe2\x80\x91' ./gtk/css-overview.xml
> >
> > I've been even more curious and tried to replace all these non-breaking
> > hyphens with normal hyphens.
> >
> >     sed -i 's:\xe2\x80\x91:-:g' css-*.xml
> >
> > The result is not that bad, but it's true that some property names in
> > first column of the tables get split in two lines.
> >
> > Wondering if there's a better way to do that.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Arnaud
> >
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