Re: [docbook-apps] Tabular presentation of segmented lists

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Title: Tabular presentation of segmented lists

Hi Ron,

If it is two columns, you might consider using a variablelist instead. It is designed for this purpose.  It will automatically try to adjust the first column to fit the data, and it provides a processing instruction for the left width in case you need to override it. For more information, see:

 

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Variablelists.html

 

What's missing is segtitle.  You might have to fake that.  8^)

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Ron Catterall

To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 12:40 PM

Subject: [docbook-apps] Tabular presentation of segmented lists

I use the following XML to display a segmented list in table form.  The first column has only very limited length data, the second column a long line of text.  When I transform this with XEP 4.9 I get a table OK, but the columns are of equal width.

I need to customize the table to get a narrow first column and the rest of the page for the second column.

How can I do this?

<segmentedlist><title>A Title for the Segmented list Presented as a Table</title>

<?dbfo list-presentation="table"?>

<segtitle>Abcd</segtitle><segtitle>Another title for the second column</segtitle>

<seglistitem><seg>1234</seg><seg>A long line of text here, generally will need to wrap around onto next line</seg></seglistitem>

<seglistitem><seg>5678</seg><seg>Another long line of text here, generally will need to wrap around onto next line</seg></seglistitem>

<seglistitem><seg>9012</seg><seg>And yet another long line of text here, generally will need to wrap around onto next line</seg></seglistitem>

</segmentedlist>

Ron

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