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[Paul W. Frields]

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.)

That's what I was looking for, thanks.

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

I'll test and let you know. My PDF builds work fine, albeit to A4 paper
size.

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Paul W. Frields, RHCE