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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] one more bit of carping and whining about <variablelist>
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:33:28PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ---- Start SpamAssassin results > 7.00 points, 7 required; > * 0.0 -- Message-Id indicates a non-spam MUA (Pine) > * 7.0 -- BODY: Possible porn - Hot, Nasty, Wild, Young > > ---- End of SpamAssassin results > > Content-Description: original message before SpamAssassin > 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^) -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@sco.com
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