html4strict-sample

Author: G. Milde
Authors: Doe, Jane
Doe-Moeller, John
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Organization: This is the longest docinfo special field name.

Abstract

Sample text demonstrating the features of the html4strict writer.

See the docs dir for layout variants.

Table without hard-coded border

Simple table with borders [1]:

Inputs Output
A B A or B
False False False
True False True
False True True
True True True

Borderless table:

Inputs Output
A B A or B
False False False
True False True
False True True
True True True
[1]However, other doctree elements using a table for layout should not be given a border.

Field lists as special definition lists

The html4strict writer exports field lists as definition lists (with class docutils field-list) and uses CSS to render it "field-list-like".

The various style sheets in the sandbox/html4strict/data/ dir provide styling examples.

Field list example

This list demonstrates the alternatives for the display of field lists highlighting problems with the handling of long field names:

The field name:

and value
this field name:
 

is considered "long" in the html table rendering. by the html4css1 with the default setting of --field-name-limit=14

Therefore, it spans 2 table columns and the field body is pushed to the next line (you can suppress this behaviour with the --field-name-limit=0 option).
iiiiiiiiiiiiiii:
 

a field name that is considered "long" by html4css1 with the default setting of field-name-limit: 14.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMM:

a field name that is actually longer than the previous one but regarded "short" by html4css1.
an absolutely very long field name:
 

will be broken at white space in some CSS layout variants.
an-absolutely-very-long-field-name:
 

with no white space must be handled in a pleasant way.
last item:

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