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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Variable Lists should be formatted as fo:block ratherthan fo:list
The XSL stylesheets 1.4.0 for Formatting Objects treat the variablelist in a very strange fashion. They use a fo:list where the term becomes a fo:list-item-label and the listitem becomes a fo:list-item-body. The effect is that the entire thing looks like a two column table in which the left hand column is way too small. Not very aesthetically pleasing. The HTML stylesheets just translate this all to a definition list which looks much better; e.g. term1 data data adata data data data adata data data data adata data term2 data data adata data data data adata data data data adata data I suggest that the FO style sheets do this too. You just need to use blocks with the appropriate indenting rather than trying to convert it to some kind of list. I've already made the changes in my own driver stylesheet. Here's what I use, though you probably don't want to use these verbatim because I haven't yet quite figured out how all the stylesheets are organized: <xsl:template match="variablelist"> <xsl:variable name="id"> <xsl:call-template name="object.id"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:if test="title"> <xsl:apply-templates select="title" mode="list.title.mode"/> </xsl:if> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="varlistentry"> <xsl:variable name="id"><xsl:call-template name="object.id"/></xsl:variable> <fo:block id="{$id}" xsl:use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing"> <fo:block> <xsl:apply-templates select="term"/> </fo:block> <fo:block start-indent="0.5in"> <xsl:apply-templates select="listitem"/> </fo:block> </fo:block> </xsl:template> -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Java I/O (O'Reilly & Associates, 1999) | | http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/books/javaio/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1565924851/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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