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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] variablelist styles


Hi David,

 

Can you please clarify what you mean by “could adapt the formalpara/title template and use it in processing your variablelists

 

Do you mean that instead of using the ‘term’ tag, to just leave it blank and add a ‘formalpara’ to the listitem? For example:

 

  <variablelist>

    <title>List of Terms</title>

    <varlistentry>

      <term/>

      <listitem>

        <formalpara>

          <title>Term 1</title>

          <para>Definition of Term 1</para>

        </formalpara>

      </listitem>

    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry>

      <term/>

      <listitem>

        <formalpara>

          <title>Term 2</title>

          <para>Definition of Term 2</para>

        </formalpara>

      </listitem>

    </varlistentry>

  </variablelist>

 

 or something different?

 

I have already modified the formalpara to work as required, the only problem is that we have a HUGE document set that already contains > 400 variablelists throughout. If I have to go and modify them to all use formalpara, it will take more time than I care to waste.

 

I agree with Dean, an existing docbook option to do this would be extremely helpful. Alternatively, an example or outline of the required XSL changes would be useful.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Laurie.

 

From: David Cramer [mailto:dcramer@motive.com]
Sent: 10 February 2010 14:39
To: Laurie Burley; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] variablelist styles

 

Ok, in that case you could adapt the formalpara/title template and use it in processing your variablelists :-) It's certainly possible to do that in your customization layer. The fact that the structure of a varlistentry and a formalpara is slightly different won't stop you and it would be a reasonble customization to use for learning a little xslt (i.e. neither impossibly hard nor so simple that you wouldn't learn anything).

 

David

 


From: Laurie Burley [mailto:laurie.burley@kofax.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:14 AM
To: David Cramer; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] variablelist styles

Thanks David..

 

 I’ve already looked at that.. I was just hoping that the variablelist could be modified as the formalpara option would require us to change all our variablelists to formal paragraphs.

 

I suppose we’ll need to revisit our use of variablelists... L

 

Regards,

 

Laurie.

 

From: David Cramer [mailto:dcramer@motive.com]
Sent: 10 February 2010 14:08
To: Laurie Burley; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] variablelist styles

 

I think you really want a list of formalparas but without bullets.

 

<itemizedlist mark="none">

<listitem><formalpara><title>Term</title><para>Definition of term here.</para></formalpara></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

 

Note that you don't need to add a period in the title. The xsls add it for you. However, if you add a .!? or : the xsls don't add a period. This behavior is controlled by the xsl params:

 

<xsl:param name="runinhead.default.title.end.punct" select="'.'"/>

<xsl:param name="runinhead.title.end.punct" select="'.!?:'"/>

 

David


From: Laurie Burley [mailto:laurie.burley@kofax.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 5:31 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [docbook-apps] variablelist styles

Hi,

 

I’ve been playing around with the variablelist styles to try and figure out if there is a way to make the variablelist term and listitem definition appear on the same line, but as if they run together.

 

I don’t like the default vl.as.list style because we have several long terms and I don’t like the wrap behaviour of the list-item-label which is independent to the list-item-body wrap behaviour.

 

Currently I have the following behaviour using the list style:

 

Term.                    Definition for the term here.

Next Term.         Definition for next term here.

Third Term          Definition for third term here.

with a really

long title.

 

What I would like is:

 

Term.  Definition for the term here.

Next Term.  Definition for next term here.

Third Term with a really long title.  Definition for the third term here.

 

I am relatively new to XSL, so there is a lot about the way things nest that I don’t understand yet. What I want may not be possible because of the listitem element, but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to ask. Has anyone managed to create the behaviour I would like above?

 

Any suggestions or advice would be really appreciated.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Laurie.

Laurie Burley
Sr. Tech Comm Spc.
Kofax U.K., Ltd.

201 Cambridge Science Park
Milton Road, Cambridge
CB4 0GZ
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 1223 226021
laurie.burley@kofax.com

 


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