LEMDO 2024-08-26 to 2024-08-30
to : Martin Holmes
Minutes: 195
On Monday, added and tested some Schematron to catch common errors
when using CSS flex. On Wednesday, discovered a large number of empty
<l> elements which should not exist, so worked with
NH to fix them all, then added Schematron to catch them in future. Then
I realized that the build process did not fail on Schematron errors; instead,
it completed, and only ended up being marked as failed by Jenkins’s log
parsing. That’s inefficient, so I’ve tweaked the build so it fails immediately
following the Schematron error report.
On Friday, discussed the PDF layout issues with DA, and she’s going to
work on a completely standalone LaTeX layout that will reproduce what
BGH has asked for; when that’s working, we can figure out how to retro-fit
it into the current build. I also worked on the problem of table rendering
in the PDF, using Mucedorus as the model. After trying various table packages
I got the best (but imperfect) results from the tabulary package; however,
with a fixed table-width, it’s never going to be possible to get perfect
layout from every table, especially in large tables with wrapping cell
content, so I think we may end up refactoring some of this input into
list-like formats at build time instead of trying to reproduce actual tables.
I also did some preliminary work on issue #197, the requirement to be able
to link to taxonomy items in documentation pages, by adding in @xml:id
attributes to the table for the taxonomy, and each row for the category.