Re: [docbook-apps] one more bit of carping and whining about <variablelist>

[Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:33:28PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:33:28 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
> To: docbook apps list <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Subject: one more bit of carping and whining about <variablelist>
> 
> 
>   based on a bit more testing, i have one more issue with <variablelist>.
> well, ok, two.  (obviously, i'm not going to get any *real* work done
> today. :-(
> 
>   first, the online TDG demonstrates that a variablelist can be rendered
> so that the terms actually overlap their corresponding listitem's, as in:
> 
>   TTF
> 
>         True Type fonts
> 
>   PFA, PFB
> 
>         PostScript fonts.
> 
> note the slight overlap, where the listitem is not pushed over 
> *completely* based on the length of the term.  this is not what
> happens at the moment.  with all my tests, the listitem gets
> cranked all the way to the right so that there is no overlap,
> as in:
> 
>   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

> 
>   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.

> p.s.  i can find them as fast as you can fix them. :-)

No, much faster than we can fix them.  8^)
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