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Re: [docbook-apps] one more bit of carping and whining about<variablelist>
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- To: Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>
- Cc: docbook apps list <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:22:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] one more bit of carping and whining about<variablelist>
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Bob Stayton wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:33:28PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
... snip ...
> > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > xxxxx listitem here
> >
> > and so on. so is the example shown in TDG misleading? under what
> > circumstances would that occur? or is that related to the change
> > to "em * 0.60"?
>
> The formatting style you are referring to is called
> "blocks" in the stylesheet. See:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ListIndents.html
i have *got* to finish that book some day.
> > second point is that, given multiple terms, the possible break
> > to render them over two lines can be very badly chosen. with
> > the two terms "/bin" and "/usr/bin", what i got was:
> >
> > /bin,/
> > usr/bin standard system executables
> >
> > yuck.
>
> Strange, when multiple term elements are used they
> are separated by a comma and a space. It should
> be breaking on the space, but it appears that
> you don't have the space.
i've definitely defined that varlistentry with two distinct
terms: "/bin" and "/usr/bin" so i have no idea where the
essential space would have gone. and i've tried both a regular
font and monospaced font for those terms in case it had something
to do with that, but it makes no difference.
still puzzled.
rday
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