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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] term in <variablelist> is rendered incorrectlyin PDF
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" ? rday
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