Re: [docbook-apps] term in <variablelist> is rendered incorrectly in PDF

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:48:47PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Bob Stayton wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jeff,
> > Actually, this all changed in version 1.62.0 of the
> > stylesheets.  I made the maxlength into a new parameter
> > 'variablelist.max.termlength'. And I changed the way the
> > term character count is converted to a length.  Using em
> > was too wide, because a typical character is half an em.
> > So I changed the calculation to em * 0.50, but this turns
> > out to be just a little too narrow when using a monospace
> > font. The em being used is the body font, and it doesn't
> > know that the actual term is using an inline monospace font
> > property.  So it calculates the width as too small and is
> > forced into hyphenating the result.
> > 
> > So I changed it in CVS to em * 0.60 and now it seems to
> > work much better with monospace font inlines.
> 
> ok, that clears things up immensely, since it pretty much
> matches what i figured was happening in terms of the space
> calculated not being *quite* enough.
> 
> for now, the easiest fix is just to edit fo/lists.xsl and
> make the change there locally.  i notice in that file that
> the expression "em * 0.50" is used in two different places
> in calculating two values related to the term length.  i'm 
> assuming both of these can be changed to "em * 0.60" ?

Yes.

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