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.

<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.

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