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author | Stuart Rackham <srackham@methods.co.nz> | 2010-08-13 21:45:45 +1200 |
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committer | Stuart Rackham <srackham@methods.co.nz> | 2010-08-13 21:45:45 +1200 |
commit | 5812078790e1703f39621b332b927cc56023c969 (patch) | |
tree | 8a092dcf7d03c315382b4ba6f9c61f03374ef199 | |
parent | 83184a4f84d156659bbcc06b71dd597843b2e04c (diff) | |
download | asciidoc-5812078790e1703f39621b332b927cc56023c969.tar.gz |
Dropped outdated FAQs.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 44 deletions
diff --git a/doc/faq.txt b/doc/faq.txt index e74e333..cf89712 100644 --- a/doc/faq.txt +++ b/doc/faq.txt @@ -204,23 +204,6 @@ option, for example: $ a2x --dblatex-opts="--param=doc.lot.show=figure,table" doc/article.txt
-== Why don't tables generated by dblatex obey the width attribute?
-Tables generated by dblatex will take 100% of the available space
-unless you change the 'pageunits' miscellaneous parameter to 'pt'.
-Here's how:
-
-- From the command-line with the `-a pageunits=pt` option
-- Or by setting `pageunits=pt` in a configuration file
- `[miscellaneous]` section.
-- Or by setting this AttributeEntry in your document:
-
- :miscellaneous.pageunits: pt
-
-See the
-http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X89[DocBook table
-widths] sidebar in the 'AsciiDoc User Guide' for an explanation.
-
-
== How can I stop the document title being displayed?
You could simply omit the document title, but this will result in a
blank 'title' element in HTML outputs. If you want the HTML 'title'
@@ -860,29 +843,6 @@ contents, revision history, figure and table captions, admonition captions).
-== Why does AsciiDoc give me a ``malformed author'' error?
-
-This is normally because there are more than three names (up to three
-are expected: first name, middle name and last name). For example,
-this author line would result in an error:
-
- Vincent Willem van Gogh
-
-You can enter multi-word first, middle and last names in the author
-line using the underscore as a word separator. For example:
-
- Vincent Willem van_Gogh
-
-You could also resolve the problem by replacing the author line with
-explicit attribute entries:
-
-----------------------
-:First name: Vincent
-:Middle name: Willem
-:Last name: Van Gogh
-----------------------
-
-
== How can I turn off table and image title numbering?
For HTML outputs set the 'caption' attribute to an empty string,
either globally:
@@ -958,10 +918,9 @@ document, for example: == Why doesn't AsciiDoc support strike through text?
-The reason it's not in the distribution is that DocBook does not have
-provision for strike through text and one of the AsciiDoc design goals
-is that AsciiDoc markup should strive to be applicable to all output
-formats.
+DocBook does not have provision for strike through text and one of the
+AsciiDoc design goals is that AsciiDoc markup should strive to be
+applicable to all output formats.
Strike through is normally used to mark deleted text -- a more
comprehensive way to manage document revisions is to use a version
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